In the Name
of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Lion of the
Desert is the dramatic action epic of the struggle of Omar Mukhtar, leader of
the Muslim resistance in North Africa in the 1920's and 30's, against the
imperialism of Mussolini and the Italian army. Despite the challenge of
overcoming the fascist Italian war machine with only faith and wisdom, the
Muslims led by Mukhtar maintained their resistance and refused to be conquered.
We go back in
history to 1862 where a young boy of a poor household was born in a town
controlled by the Uthmany Khilafa. This young man was brought under the care
and tutelage of one of the Shuyookh in his home town when he was at the ripe
age of 16 after the death of his father.
He eventually
developed a lifestyle of not sleeping more than 3 hours every night in order to
get up to pray to Allah at the last third of the night and recite Qur'an until
fajr. He memorized the Qur'an (as all knowledgeable people begin their lives)
eventually, and was known to have finished his revisions in its entirety every
seven days, regardless of the sufferings he encountered in his life.
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