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And I came very late so I was in the very back rows of the salaah.

And it was during the Khilafah of Umar al-Khattab,

radiallahu tala'anhu. So he walks into the message of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

to pray behind Umar al-Khattab, radiallahu tala'anhu.

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

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

And he said that he started to recite innama ash-kul-bethi 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 rows.

So, Hanoa, 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,

radiallahu tala'anhu. And he would try again and he'd cry again, radiallahu 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 a relationship with the Quran.

And I want you to ask yourself, what do you think Omar radiallahu tala'anhu was crying about?

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

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