The wife of the Khaliphah Umar bin Abdul Aziz, the fifth one of the rightly guided Khulapha', once entered his place of prayer and saw him crying, so she asked him, "Why are you crying?" He said, "Leave me alone." Then, she repeated the same question and his answer was the same. When she repeat the same question more than three times and insisted on knowing the reason, he replied saying, "I am thinking about the patient, the poor man, the widow, the miserable person, the elderly man, and the person who has many children and he is unable to satisfy their needs." He mentioned more than thirty types of people who suffered from miserable situations. He added, "It came to my mind that Allah will ask me about all of them, and that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah have peace and blessings upon him, will be on their side. I am afraid that my argument will not be strong enough, that is why I am crying."

 Sayyidona Umar Ibn Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, said, ((By Allah! If a mule trips in Iraq, I will be held accountable for it. Allah will ask me, 'Why did not you repair the road for it, O Umar?')) He feared this moment, because he believed in the Last Day.

 Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, once asked Abdul Rahman bin Auf to help him guarding a caravan although he was the Khaliphah, because he knew that doing so was a righteous deed, and Allah the Almighty would reward them for it. Among the people of the caravan, there was a child crying, so Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, went to his mother and said, "Breastfeed him." She did, but then he heard the child crying, so again he went to his mother and said, "Breastfeed him", and the mother did. After a while, the child cried, so Umar got angry, went to his mother and said, "You bad woman, breastfeed him." The woman said, "This is not your business! (she did not know that she was addressing the Khalifah)I'm trying to wean him." He said, "Why are you trying to do this.?" The woman replied, "Because Umar ordered that mothers will become eligible for child allowance only after their children are weaned." It was narrated that upon hearing this Umar hit his forehead, and said, "Woe to you, O Umar, Allah knows how many children suffered because of my orders." Children suffered because he had ordered that the mothers got allowances as soon as their babies were weaned, not born. He was greatly moved by that incident, so when he led Muslims in Al-Fajr prayer, they couldn't understand his reciting clearly because he was crying severely. He used to say after every prayer: "O Allah! Did You accept my repentance so I congratulate myself? Or You did not so I condole it?" He behaved like that, because he strongly believed in the Last Day.