Umar Ibn al Khattab letter to the Nile River There was a time when Egypt was conquered by Muslim militaries, Caliph Umar Al-Khattab put Amru Al-As as the governor of that new Muslim territory. Amru Al-As was famous as a valiant commander and an efficient and wise administrator. When Amru Al-As became the Governor of Egypt, there was news foretelling that the river of Nile soon would be dry, and hence, the Egyptians planned to do an ancient ceremony which was to sacrifice a girl for the river. They pushed Amru to do the ceremony but Amru insisted to not doing it as it opposed to Islam tradition. Time flew by and the river truly drying up as was foretold. Since farming in Egypt really depended on the river, the Egyptians started to panic and moved to other new verdant land. That situation forced Amru to write upon Caliph Umar in Medina for his opinion. Amru himself felt terrible on how to solve the problem. Then, Caliph Umar replied his answer in a letter. When the letter was received by Amru, he noticed that the letter was not for him but instead for the Nile itself. Before he threw the letter into the drying Nile, he read the letter and it wrote: “This letter is sent to the river of Nile by Umar, servant of Allah and Commander of the Believers. O river of Nile, if the water is flowed on your will, behold that we do not need it. But if it flows in the will of Allah, thus, we pray to Him to let flow the water in the river.” After the letter was thrown into the river, the river was filled with water up to forty-eight feet deep in the same night. Since then, the pagan ceremony for the river has been disappeared. ALLAHU AKBAR! RIVER NILE IS THE LONGEST RIVER IN THE WORLD AND FLOWS ACROSS 9 COUNTRIES.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:05:27 +0000
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