Islamic history tells that there were two men who had a dispute over some financial issue and they went to prophet Muhammed to seek an arbitrary decision. When prophet Muhammed made a decision, one of those men did not accept it and asked to appeal it; therefore they went to Omar Ibn El Khattab and told him the story. What Omar did was that he KILLED the man who was trying to appeal the prophet's decision.
Many muslims know that story and this is the reason Omar kattab was called "Farouk", which means "the man who distinguished between what is right and what is wrong".
http://haqiqa.jeeran.com/archive/2006/8/81749.html
My questions are:
(1) The dispute was purely over a financial issue. And It is their right to appeal a decision if they did not like it. So, why did Omar kill the man?
(2) Neither of parties in the dispute was muslim; and therefore it was their right not to believe that a decision made by prophet Muhammed was a holy one that should not be disputed.
2006-08-27
08:26:01
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