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And he said, I came late, so presumably, in a second raka, all the way in the back row.

And he said, Sayyidina Umar al-Diyallahu tala'anhu was reciting Surah Yusuf that day.

And he said that he started to recite innama ash-shkul-bath-fi wa-huzni-il-Allah

that verily I complain of my grief and of my sadness only to Allah.

And he said, he started to cry so loud that I could hear him all the way from the back row.

Subhanallah, no speaker system, no nothing.

I could hear him weeping all the way from the back rows.

And he would try to collect himself and recite it again.

And then he would cry again, wa-huzni-il-Allah tala'anhu.

And he would try again and he'd cry again, wa-huzni-il-Allah tala'anhu.

Now Subhanallah, if you prayed behind the Imam and the Imam started to weep in an unusual way,

you know, it's very possible that afterwards you'd come up to him and just put your hand

tap him on the back and say, you know, may Allah make it easy, I hope everything's okay.

Or is everything okay? You might be concerned.

But the norm of the companions was to have this type of relationship with the Quran.

Now I want you to ask yourself, what do you think Umar al-Diyallahu tala'anhu was crying about?

Was he crying about Ya Qulb al-Hissalam, the pain of Jacob with his son Joseph with Yusuf al-Hissalam?

And just the moments of Surah Yusuf that are so personal, was he crying because he was thinking about

something with the Prophet ﷺ? Was he perhaps still grieving the death of the Prophet ﷺ?

And we know that he always was grieving the death of the Prophet ﷺ all the way up until his own death.

Did something happen to Umar al-Diyallahu tala'anhu to where that ayah was hitting him in a particular way?

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