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KHILAFAT-E-R A SHIDAH 163 the vision of the Holy Prophet sa. It is also a miracle that Hadrat Umar ra heard the words of the Holy Prophet sa and got the chance to fulfil them. Though Hadrat Umar ra did not hear every word of the Holy Prophet sa , and there was a possibility that somebody had heard it and he might have forgotten to convey it to the others. But the part of the miracle is that the gold bangles came on to the hand of the very person who had himself heard the vision of the Holy Prophet sa. The miracle is also that Allah, the Almighty created an urge in the heart of Hadrat Umar ra to insist that the gold bangles be worn by that Companion ra , whereas according to sharia it is forbidden for men to wear gold. As Allah, the Almighty wanted to fulfil this vision of the Holy Prophet sa , He drew Hadrat Umar’s ra attention to it. Though the wisdom for not allowing men to wear gold is, no doubt, good; yet it is not wrong for the gold bangles to be worn for a short time to fulfil the vision the Holy Prophet sa –and so the bangles were worn by that Companion ra. 28 After the Deaths of Khulaf a ’-e-R a shid i n their Fear Continued to be Transformed into Security Similarly we see that Khulaf a ’-e-R a shid i n died and years after their deaths Allah, the Almighty 28 Usudul-Gh a bb a h , Zikru Sur a kah bin M a lik , Vol. 2, p. 281, by Imam ‘Izzuddin Abul Hasan Ali bin Muhammad Al-Hazri Ibnil Ath i r, publisher D a rul Ma‘rifah, Beirut, Lebanon. Second edition, AH 1422, AD 2001.