Achievements of Hazrat Umar (r.a).


Syeddina Umar(ra) dealt with many matters quickly and before they would rise to cause. It was also the sharpness of his personality and austerity that quelled many of the troubles that would appear to his successors. Here is some of his major achievements in list form.

1. Establishment of Public Treasury
2. Establishments of courts of Justice and appointment of Judges
3. Placing the reserve army on the state’s Payroll and organization of the War department
4. Establishment of Postal service
5. Establishment of the Land Revenue department
6. Survey and assessment of lands
7. Public census
8. Punishment of those who practice Monopoly by exile to different lands
9. Establishment of and use of Jails
10. Building of Canals and Bridges
11. First to use the Whip
12. Establishment of Public Rest Areas, hostels and Wudu (Ablution) Stations
13. Fixing the date to the Start of the Migration of the Messenger
14. Dividing the state and the conquered territories into provinces
15. Founding of new cities (al-Amsar) such as Kufah, Basarah and Fustat
16. Zakat on Produce of the sea, such as fish, Lobster, shrimp etc., and appointment of a responsible official.
17. Use of secret reports and specially designated emissaries to provide first reports as what is really going on in different provinces
18. Salary for Imams, Muadhans (Callers to prayer) teachers and public lectures.
19. Stipends for the poor among the Jews and Christians who lived in conquered lands.
20. Punishment for drunkenness, written satires and lampoons.
21. Establishment of Guilds for certain trades.
22. Prohibition of the mention of women’s names in poetry.
23. Holding tarawih (Ramadan night prayers) in congregation, before his time it was done individually.
24. Providing lighting in the Mosques at night
25. Persuading Abu Bakr to collect the Qur’an in one book.
26. Establishment of Military bases at strategic points in the different provinces.
27. Establishment of the Police department
28. Personally making nightly rounds to check on the condition of the people first hand.
29. Formulation of the Principal of Qiyas (Analogical Reasoning.) for determining rulings on newly encountered matters in Fiqh (Jurisprudence.)
30. Establishment of a more exact system of calculation of the inheritance.
31. Limiting the relationship between Muslims and Non-Muslims
32. Establishing a stable for the lost camels
33. State intervention to control the price of merchandise
34. First to enlarge the al-Haram (the Sacred Mosque) at Mecca. First to place a cover on the Kaaba
35. Discovered the place of Isra, Ascension of the Messenger to heavens at Jerusalem

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