Omar is considered the man of the occasion in the era we are in. Because it is the era in which the worship of tyrannical power became widespread, and those who preached its religion claimed that righteousness and right are opposites. If we understand one great person like Omar ibn al-Khattab, we have demolished the religion of tyrannical power from its foundations. Because we will understand a man who was extremely brave, extremely just, and extremely compassionate... and in this understanding is an antidote to the disease of the age, with which those who are not hopeless will be cured.
Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad