Umar Al-Qadri

Muhammad Umar Al-Qadri is an Islamic scholar and Sheikh based in Ireland who was born in a Pakistani Muslim scholarly family. His father is Muslim scholar Hazrat Maulana Mehr Ali Qadri, who arrived in late 1970s in Den Haag, Netherlands, to serve as an Imam. Qadri is also the Chair of the Irish Muslim Peace & Integration Council, a national representative Muslim body with presence in Dublin, Cork, Athlone, Port Laoise and Belfast.

Life in Ireland

He moved to Ireland in 2004 after completing his religious studies from Jamia Islamia Minhaj-Ul-Quran in Pakistan and started working full time as an accounts payable in Philips. He co-founded the Clonee Mosque in a residential state and in 2008 founded Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Ireland in Dublin.

Al-Qadri has traveled around Ireland, the UK and other Western countries to deliver lectures on Islam in Islamic centres, mosques, colleges and universities His lectures are also shown on Ummah Channel

Al-Qadri represents the Muslim community of Ireland in various governmental and non-governmental bodies and organisations, including the Fingal Ethnic Network, Fingal County Council, Citizen Information Centre Blanchardstown, TCD Scriptural Reasoning Group and Council of Irish Imams. He was appointed in June 2013 as the secretary of the Fingal Ethnic Network and he served until 2014.

Umar

Umar, also spelled Omar (Arabic: عمر بن الخطاب‎, translit. ʿUmar ibn Al-Khattāb, Umar Son of Al-Khattab, born c.583 CE – died 3 November 644 CE), was one of the most powerful and influential Muslim caliphs in history. He was a senior Sahaba of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He succeeded Abu Bakr (632–634) as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate on 23 August 634. He was an expert Islamic jurist known for his pious and just nature, which earned him the epithet Al-Farooq ("the one who distinguishes between right and wrong"). He is sometimes referred to as Umar I by historians of Islam, since a later Umayyad caliph, Umar II, also bore that name. According to Sunnis, Umar is the second greatest of the Sahaba after Abu Bakr.

Under Umar, the caliphate expanded at an unprecedented rate, ruling the Sasanian Empire and more than two-thirds of the Byzantine Empire. His attacks against the Sasanian Empire resulted in the conquest of Persia in fewer than two years (642–644). According to Jewish tradition, Umar set aside the Christian ban on Jews and allowed them into Jerusalem and to worship.