Thread: Caliph Al-farooq Hazrat Umar ibn Al Khattab (RA)
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Syeddina Moula Ali (ra) describes his(Umar) migration and honorable attitude toward the pagans:

"I know none other than Umar who migrated without concealment. When he was ready to travel, he put on his sword, put his bow on his shoulder, took his arrows in his hand and went to the Kaaba. Leading members of the Quraysh were sitting in the courtyard of the Kaaba. Once he had walked around the Kaaba seven times, he performed two prayers at the rock of Abraham. He came one by one to the pagans sitting in circles and said,
“Faces have been polluted. Whoever wishes to leave his mother childless, his children orphaned and his wife a widow, let him follow me in this valley.” None of them had the courage to prevent him "

(Suyutî, History of the Caliphs, Tarikh al-Khulafa, Beirut 1986, 130).
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