The distinguished personalities raised by the Islamic people in February were either martyrs as the targets of cruel and unbelievers, or they were exhausted after the years of struggle they had given and delivered their souls to Allah. In February, the last member of this blessed caravan was the Sheikh Omar Abdurrahman.

Sheikh Omar Abdurrahman, who was among the distinguished personalities that cut off the February cold with their souls and blood, was sentenced to life imprisonment for 23 years under heavy conditions, claiming that he was responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center in New York and some bombings.

After Donald Trump took over the administration, Abdurrahman said that he had been confiscated on the last phone call with his family that his medicines were not given and his health condition was getting worse, which might be the last talk.

The last 23 years of Sheikh Omar Abdurrahman, who had been tried for years in the struggle for survival and imprisoned several times in Egyptian prisons, for the murder of the Egyptian pharaoh Anwar Sadat, passed in the US prisons.

He lost his eyes when he was 10-months-old

Omar Abdurrahman, who devoted his life to Islamic studies, was born on May 3, 1935 in Al Jamaliyye, al-Menzile center of Egypt's Dakahlia province, but his struggle with the troubles in the world began with his eyes blind when he was 10-months-old. At the age of five, Abdurrahman started his education life in the "Nur Körler Madrasa", and he memorized the Qur'an at the age of 11. Abdurrahman received El-Ezher's primary and high school diploma after ten years of education and then moved to Usuluddin Faculty of Ezher University after his high school education. After 5 years educated in there Abdurrahman graduated from the Academy Award in 1965. He was appointed as an imam to a province of Al-Fayyum province. Abdurrahman, who saw that people did not pay attention to the mosques, increased the number of the mosque community in a short period of time.

Abdurrahman, who continued his education as well as his imam, received Master diploma with the dissertation "Forbidden Months" which he had prepared in 1967 after seeing Master's Education known as "Diploma" in Egypt.

Egyptian intelligence is starting to follow

Abdurrahman, who had been appointed as a traveling preacher to the provincial center after completing his master's degree, started to study the people by touring from mosque to mosque. Abdurrahman, who was appointed as an assistant to the faculty in 1968, continued to work on sermons and khutbas in the mosques. Abdurrahman criticized the Egyptian regime and its practices, started to follow intelligence and security in the time of Jamal Abdel Nasser. Abdurrahman was called to testify following the sermons he gave, said later on these proceedings he would say: "When I talked about Pharaoh in my khutbas, the government officials thought that this meant Abdel Nasser. My criticism against the administration of Abdel Nasser became increasingly controversial. Finally I was summoned to Ezher at the end of 1969. When I met with the general secretary of the university, he informed me that I was temporarily suspended from duty - with the continuation of my wage to continue - so I began to realize that the criminal practice on the soldiers' side was passed on the brink of civilians.

Fatwa for funeral pray of Abdel Nasser cannot be performed

After a while, Abdurrahman was returned to his duty in university, continued to give sermons and preaches on the mosques, sometimes openly and occasionally hidden. In one of his khutba Abdurrahman gave illicit for the funeral prayer of Abdel Nasser, precluded people from attending to the funeral which he was arrested and put in the dungeon. Abdurrahman, who spent 8 months in this first dungeon experience, was arrested several more times due to the investigations that were launched in the following years.

Every step was taken to prevent Abdurrahman’s Islamic studies, who was taken from his University duty and appointed as a high school teacher in Minye. Abdurrahman, who was frequently threatened by the school administration to not meet anyone, nevertheless continued his Islamic studies and continued his education life and secretly completed his remaining doctoral education during this period. Two days a week, he secretly went to the Faculty of Usuluddin in Feyyum and tried to complete his doctoral thesis. Despite all obstacles Abdurrahman completed his doctoral thesis titled with the help of the faculty dean, "Attitudes to the Enemies of the Qur'an in the S?rat at-Tawbah [The Repudiation]", but he was not appointed as an assistant due to the obstruction of intelligence. Since 1973, when the university administration objected to these obstacles, he continued his university courses until 1977. At the invitation of Saudi Arabia, Abdurrahman went to the Külliyetü'l Benat (Girls' Faculty) at Riyadh University, returned to Egypt again in 1980.

He was held responsible for the murder of Anwar Sadat

Shortly after he returned to Egypt, Abdurrahman was arrested in the Military State Security Courts in 1981 as leader of Jamat-i Islamic, responsible for the killing of Anwar Sadat. Abdurrahman was acquitted on charges. He was released on September 2, 1984.

Abdurrahman, who was held in house-arrest for one year after he released from the prison, was arrested again in 1985. He was released in the same year but the pressures on Abdurrahman continued to increase.

He went to Afghanistan

In the mid-1980s Abdurrahman, went to Afghanistan where they were continued their resistance against the Soviets occupation, founded Mektebul Hadamatı (Service Bureau) with Abdullah Azzam and Osama Bin Laden, sending volunteers from other countries to the front. Abdurrahman sent the volunteers to the front, and he invited his two sons to Afghanistan for fighting.

Abdurrahman, who was arrested again in Egypt in 1989, was soon released. Abdurrahman, who went to Sudan and settled in the United States after he did not accept by Saudi Arabia in 1990, continued to Islamic study there. Abdurrahman's work, which has carried out invitation work in the USA with Islamic countries, as well as conferences in countries like the Philippines, Switzerland, Germany, England, Sweden, Denmark and Canada, has begun to disturb the United States.

From Egyptian prisons to US prisons

The US intelligence, which sees Omar Abdurrahman as a threat and has begun to follow, found the opportunity in 1993 with the bombing of the Trade Center in New York City. Omar Abdurrahman was arrested in 1995, accusing him of "bombing" the witnesses, who later released that they are "intelligence officers".

Abdurrahman was sentenced to life imprisonment for working on the destruction of the United States, bombing military installations in the US, and planning to kill Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Cellular punishment with wheelchair

Abdurrahman was persecuted in prison despite his illnesses such as diabetes, pancreatic cancer, blood pressure, rheumatism and constant headache, protested these bad conditions with hunger strikes from time to time.

Abdurrahman spent his imprisonment in a wheelchair in cell penalty despite missing his ability to move, summed up his living in a letter he wrote: "The conditions in my prison are very bad, and I am extremely weak”.

“All they demand about freedom of religion and freedom of worship are all unjust. Since I was captured in October 1995, I have not even gotten permission to pray for the Friday prayers, and I have never prayed in the community.”

“I have not been going to cut my hair and nails for months. In my circumstances, someone has been sentenced to cell imprisonment, without helping to organize anyone's belongings.”

I do not have anyone who can talk day or night, since my cell is closed to everyone, they do not let me socialize with the others, nor let anyone that I can speak Arabic with... I stay in this way day and night. What a loneliness, what a tyrant? Is this the human rights that they are much praised and fill in the flow of broadcasts and news media? Are they trying to silence us by torture us and cut off our voice?”

Abdurrahman had been held in jail under heavy conditions for 23 years, had been abandoned to death by cutting off his medicines after Trump took over the administration. Abdurrahman had been on the phone with his family some time ago, said that maybe it might be his last talk. And shortly after that, Sheikh Omar Abdurrahman passed away.

Omar Abdurrahman, the spiritual leader of the Jama'at al-Islamiya, who had the most to announce his name after the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and who was active in the southern regions, had seven children named Muhammad, Ahmed, Abdullah, Fatima, Abdurrahman, Osama and Hasan.

He lived his life as teacher, mujahedeen and ascetic

In a letter written by Omar Abdurrahman’s wife to him, she said:

"But you, too, were able to survive with the continuing education activities of some university instructors and you could earn income by selling class notes to the students... But you did not do that ... You left your family to the guarded of Allah ... If Allah were not present, we really were experiencing a tragedy ... while you were the teacher I the university, you did not do as is done today to make profit, you refused to publish your lecture notes or books ... instead, you said to students: "Read reliable and known any of the books of tafsir, are all the same."

Beloved husband! 
You have experienced your life as teacher, mujahedeen and ascetic... We have always known you as brave, patient, fasting, and one who waits for night prayers and expecting only from Allah. You spent a long part of your life in detention in the house of Feyyum with a ban on going out... Everyone knew that your joy was to pray with the congregation, to meet the righteous Muslims and show the right way to the people... But you tolerated and persevered in Allah's discretion... So until the sun raised again... Then you go out once more to meet the invited and loved ones...

Beloved husband! 
I remember the day the Shuheda Mosque was besieged. That day you had fallen and what had happened to you... All the people were looking at you, and you were a blind teacher [imam]. Your reading the Qur'an, were making them cry... These people see the leaders and leaders who drift from the ground; but they could not do anything, and they could not defend you... They were only crying in the face of the ugliness made to him... They body language were saying for his white headdress: if it were not white, they would not mock him. But the respect of religion went away. 

You have experienced such violent hardships... As if nothing happened, they have all gone through like the others... Your body language says: "I need a good patience now. There is only Allah to emigrate against all of these you are telling.” (ILKHA)