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to 1862 where a young boy of a poor household was ... - 18th
March 2008 #1 Who Was Umar al-Mukhtar Who Was Umar al-Mukhtar?
We go back in history to 1862 where a young boy of a poor
household was born in a town controlled by the Uthmany Khilafa.
This young man was brought under the care and tutelage of one of
the Shuyookh in his home town when he was at the ripe age of 16
after the death of his father. He eventually developed a
lifestyle of not sleeping more than 3 hours every night in order
to get up to pray to Allah at the last third of the night and
recite Qur'an until fajr. He memorized the Qur'an (as all
knowledgeable people begin their lives) eventually, and was
known to have finished his revisions in its entirety every seven
days, regardless of the sufferings he encountered in his life.
His courage and wisdom was pro