Embracing Islam

Embracing Islam

When Muhammad SAW spread Islam openly in Mecca, Omar reacted very antipatically to him, some notes say that Muslims at that time acknowledged that Umar was their most counted opponent, this is because Umar who already has a very good reputation as a war strategist And a very tough warrior in every battle he passed. Umar is also noted as the one who most and most often uses his power to torture Muhammad's followers.
At the height of his hatred of the teachings of Muhammad SAW, Umar decided to try to kill Muhammad SAW, but on his way he met with one of the followers of Muhammad SAW named Nu'aim bin Abdullah who later gave him the news that Umar's sister had embraced Islam, the teachings brought by Muhammad SAW who wanted to kill him then. Because of the news, Umar was shocked and went home with the intention of punishing his brother, narrated that Umar met his sister reading the Qur'an (Thoha letter verses 1-8), getting angry about it and hitting his sister. When he saw his sister bleed by his blow he became compassionate, and then asked that the reading could be seen, narrated Umar became shaken by what he read, some time after the incident Umar declared embracing Islam, of course the thing that has always membelanyani make Almost the whole of Mecca was shocked that one of the most notorious and most violent men in torturing the followers of Muhammad SAW then embraced the very hatefulness of his teachings, consequently Umar was isolated from the association of Mecca and he became less or less respected by the Quraish high officials who have been known Always defend it.
[Edit] Life in Medina
In the year 622 AD, Umar joined Muhammad and other followers of migration (to Yathrib (now Medina), he was also involved in the battle of Badr, Uhud, Khaybar and assault on Syria In 625 his daughter (Hafsah) married Prophet Mohammed was regarded as the most respected by the Muslims at that time because in addition to his reputation which was famous since pre-Islamic times, also because he was known as the front man who always defended Muhammad and the teachings of Islam on every occasion even without him Hesitantly opposed his old friends with whom he tortured his followers of Muhammad.
[Edit] The death of Muhammad
At the time of the news of Muhammad's death on 8 June 632 AD (12 Rabiul Awal, 10 Hijri) in Medina to the Muslims as a whole, Umar was reported to be one of the most shocked of the event, he hampered anyone to bathe or prepare his body for the funeral. As a result of the shock he received, Umar insisted that Muhammad was not dead but was just being unconscious, and would return at any moment. [1]
Abu Bakr who heard the news rushed back from Medina, he met Umar was holding another Muslim and then said (! Cquote!) "Brethren! Whoever wants to worship Muhammad, Muhammad is dead, but whoever wants to worship Allah, Never die. "! |)
Abu Bakr reminded the shaken Muslims, including Umar at the time, that Muhammad, like them, was an ordinary man, Abu Bakr later recited verses from the Qur'an [2] and tried to remind them of the doctrine that Muhammad taught the mortality of created beings. After that event Umar surrendered and let the burial preparations take place. dear Allah
[Edit] Persons era of Abu Bakr Caliphate
In the time of Abu Bakr as khalifah, Umar was one of his chief advisers. After the death of Abu Bakr in 634, Umar was appointed to replace Abu Bakr as the second Caliph in Islamic history.
[Edit] Being a khalifah
During the reign of Umar, the rule of Islam grew very rapidly. Islam took over Mesopotamia and parts of Persia from the hands of the Sassanid dynasty of Persia (ending the sassanid empire) and took over Egypt, Palestine, Syria, North Africa and Armenia from the Roman Empire (Byzantium). At that time there were two great power states of Persia and Rome. But both have been conquered by the Islamic Caliphate under the leadership of Umar.
History records many of the great battles that were the beginning of this conquest. At the battle of Yarmuk, which occurred near Damascus in 636, 20,000 Islamic troops defeated the 70,000th Roman troops and ended Roman rule in southern Asia Minor. Other smaller Islamic armies won victory over a larger Persian army at the battle of Qadisiyyah (th 636), near the flower