Reform and the sword

Umar bin Abdul Aziz is rightly known as Omar Sani ( The Second Omar) due to the reforms he introduced to the Muslim world after many tragic incidents of the Muslim history like the reign of Yazeed, Shahadat e Imam Hussain, May God be pleased with him ( the grand son of the Prophet Peace be Upon Him) and the spread of the love of the material world with in the muslim rulers especially.

His promising son, Abdul Malik a youth of 17 advised his father to be more ruthless in introducing his beneficial reforms, but the wise father replied,

"My beloved son, what thou tellest me to do can be achieved only by sword, but there is no good in a reform which requires the use of the sword, But there is no good in a reform which requires the use of sword."

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