Extraordinary Standards of Service to his People (Hazrat Musleh Mau’d’s (ra) Narration)

Hazrat Musleh-e-Maud (ra) states:

“Just look at the example of Hazrat Umar (ra). On the one hand, the renowned kings of the world were in awe of his power and might, the Byzantine and Persian Empires quaked in fear of him, but on the other hand, the mighty Umar becomes anxious and worried on seeing the hungry children of a Bedouin woman. He places a bag of flour on his back and with a pot of clarified butter in his hand, he goes to see the woman and does not leave until he cooks food with his own hands and feeds it to those children and they eventually fall asleep.”

(Sair-e-Ruhani, Anwar-ul-Ulum, Vol. 22, p. 596)