A bowl full of honey was presented to Sayyiduna ‘Umar Farooq-e-A’zam رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ. Holding the bowl in his hand, he رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَـالٰی عَـنْـهُ said thrice: ‘If I drink it, its deliciousness and sweetness will soon end but accountability for it will remain.’ He رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ then gave it to someone else.
(Az-Zuhd li Ibn Al-Mubarak, pp. 219)
Sayyiduna ‘Umar Farooq-e-A’zam رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَـالٰی عَـنْـهُ said, ‘I have pondered about it; when I intend to improve my worldly life, there seems to suffer loss in the afterlife. And when I intend to improve my Hereafter, I observe the loss in my worldly life. So, this is the fact, hence you should (comparing the loss of the afterlife) bear the loss of this mortal world.’
(Az-Zuhd lil Imam Ahmad, pp. 152)
Dear Islamic brothers! Despite being destined to Jannah, Sayyiduna ‘Umar Farooq-e-A’zam رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ would weep bitterly out of the fear of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ due to which two dark lines had developed on his refulgent face. On page 123 of the book ‘Allah Walon ki Baatayn’, volume 1 [the 695-page publication of Maktaba-tul-Madinah, the publishing department of Dawat-e-Islami], a distinctive trait has been mentioned: It is reported by