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ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz è stato un politico e condottiero arabo fu l'ottavo califfo della dinastia omayyade-marwanide di Siria dal 717 al 720.

Diversamente dagli altri califfi omayyadi, ascese a tale carica per nomina, anziché per via ereditaria come i suoi predecessori. Era comunque bis-nipote del successore del Profeta secondo califfo ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, cugino del califfo Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik e figlio di ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marwān, governatore dell'Egitto, al quale il fratello, il califfo al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik aveva in un primo tempo promesso la successione. Gli succederà il cugino, figlio di al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, Yazīd II. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Novembre 681 – 5. Febbraio 720
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“O people, you were not created in vain, nor will you be left to yourselves. Rather, you will return to a place in which Allah will descend in order to judge among you and distinguish between you. Destitute and lost are those who forsake the all-encompassing Mercy of Allah, and they will be excluded from Paradise, the borders of which are as wide as the heavens and the Earth. Don't you know that protection, tomorrow, will be limited to those who feared Allah [today], and to those who sold something ephemeral for something permanent, something small for something great, and fear for protection? Don't you realize that you are the descendants of those who have perished, that those who remain will take place after you, and that this will continue until you are all returned to Allah? Every day you dispatch to Allah, at all times of the day, someone who has ded, his term having come to an end. You bury him in a crack in the earth and then leave him without a pillow or a bed. He has parted from his loved ones, severed his connections with the living, and taken up residence in the earth, whereupon he comes face to face with the accounting. He is mortgaged to his deeds: He needs his accomplishments, but not the material things he left on earth. Therefore, fear Allah before death descends and its appointed times expire. I swear by Allah that I say those words to you knowing that I myself have committed more sins than any of you; I therefore ask Allah for forgiveness and I repent. Whenever we learn that one of you needs something, I try to satisfy his need to the extent that I am able. Whenever I can provide satisfaction to one of you out of you of my possessions, I seek to treat him as my equal and m relative, so that my life and his life are of equal value. I swear by Allah that had I wanted something else, namely, affluence, then it would have been easy for me to utter the word, aware as I am of the means for obtaining this. But Allah has issued in an eloquent Book (Quran) and a just example Sunnah by means of which He guides us to obedience and proscribes disobedience.”

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History of the Prophets and Kings, Vol. 24, p. 98/99, also quoted in Umar Bin Abd Al-Aziz, p. 708-710
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“Do not destroy a church, synagogue, or fire temple with respect to which an agreement has been concluded with you, and do not permit the construction of a new church or fire temple. Do not drag the lamb to its place of slaughter of sharpen the knife over the head of the animal. Do not combine two prayers without an excuse.”

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Letter to Abd al-Rahman bin Nu'aym, also quoted in History of the Prophets and Kings, Vol. 24, p. 101

“This is the Last Abode; we appoint it for those who desire not exorbitance in the earth, nor corruption. The issue ultimate is to the godfearing.”

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Quran: Chapter 28, verse 83, quoted in History of the Prophets and Kings, Vol. 24, p. 102
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