Omar Bin Abd Al-Aziz: The Ascetic Caliph

The biography of Omar Bin Abd Al-Aziz as the fifth Caliph is not like any other biography of a normal person or of a great man. He is a special type of man, an exceptionally excellent one whose piety and fear of Allah the exalted was so amazing and so complete. He was the man who was fated by Allah the exalted to be the great distinguished Caliph who handeled things so differently from those who came before him from the Omayyad Caliphs. Indeeed, his attitudes towards so many things in Islam and his asceticism have shown him to have really deserved his title as the fifth ascetic Caliph.