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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Saqifa A Great Secret Surrounds Him It seems to me that the matter was not as simple as it appears. Omar was far beyond that. He was not a simpleton to believe that the Prophet would not die while he had already died. He was the same man who had told without least hesitation: "The Book of God is enough to us" and "The pain has overcome him." The word "ENOUGH" what sense it conveys? The Prophet wanted to write before his death.

If Omar's belief was that he would not die then it makes no sense in his saying 'The Book of God is enough' or what harm it could have done to him had he allowed the Prophet to write down what he wanted to write. Can we take his words granted for the grief that he incensed him? His apology the next day was not in that respect. When he acknowledged the death of the Prophet he did not show any sign of grief or shock. We wish he had shown some. From the beginning till the end he was what he was.

Some of the people put forward the excuse of the grief, which, according to them, was too much for him to bear. But neither the groups appear to have not known him nor have they probed into his motive. He who believes that the Prophet has gone into absence and swears and shouts; for such a man when the thing is ascertained which he spurns to believe, the shock should be greater to the extent of madness.

The whole episode abounds with incidents that suffice for one to ponder that he did not choose to beat around the bush as he well knew what was behind the mounds and availed what the others failed to see. 39- These statements/texts we have gathered from KANZUL OMMAL (129:3 & 53:4) and from the ALTABARI & IBN AL-ATHEER & AL-BUKHARI histories (152:4), and ALSEERATUL DAHLANIA (347:2) and the words = my desire...Prophet = from AL-AHEEH and ALSEERAT.

The sense/ meaning is the same though the words differ. It could be believed that Omar was afraid that the people would do what undesirable to him because all had held their necks high to see who would succeed the Prophet in that hour fraught with anxiety, zeal and perplexity while Abu Baker too was absent in ALSANAH. Whether they be together or apart from each other -- each was supplement to the other. On this matter they should have reached an agreement or understanding before hand.

So, at that particular juncture Omar's office was to divert the attention of the people from the object of their concentration.