Omer Faruq

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[Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Hāshimī @hashimiyy_]

Assessing the Claim of Nepotism Under Sayyidunā ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān رضي الله عنه

Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm…

Few accusations have been repeated as frequently in early Islamic history as the claim that the caliphate of Sayyidunā ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān رضي الله عنه was marked by nepotism.

According to this narrative, he filled the administration with his relatives from Banū Umayyah, consolidating power within his family. However, a closer and more careful examination of the historical record reveals that this claim is misleading.

Among the governors appointed during his rule, a small number were indeed related to him. The most commonly cited figures include:

Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān
ʿAbdullāh ibn Saʿd ibn Abī al-Sarḥ
al-Walīd ibn ʿUqbah
Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ
ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿĀmir

However, it is important to note that not all of these individuals represent the same type of relationship.

Ibn Abī al-Sarḥ, for example, was not an Umayyad kinsman by lineage, but rather a milk-brother, distinction that weakens the claim of dynastic consolidation.

Moreover, al-Walīd ibn ʿUqbah and Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ did not govern Kūfah at the same time; one replaced the other. Not to mention, this occurred in Kūfah, a city known for its resistance to those appointed over it. Critics of ʿUthmān often present them as simultaneous examples, which artificially inflates the perception of family control.

When the full list of appointees is considered, the picture changes significantly. The administration of ʿUthmān رضي الله عنه included numerous governors, commanders, and officials who had no familial ties to him. Only a handful out of several dozen appointments involved relatives. Just a few of these include:

Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī
al-Aḥnaf ibn Qays
Ḥabīb ibn Maslamah
Jarīr ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Bajalī
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid ibn al-Walīd
al-Qaʿqāʿ ibn ʿAmr
Salmān ibn Rabīʿah

These figures were not marginal actors. They commanded armies, governed regions, and played decisive roles in the expansion and stability of the caliphate.

Their presence undermines the claim that ʿUthmān sought to monopolize political authority within Banū Umayyah.

A counter-argument presented by critics of the caliph is that, even if the number of relatives was small, they controlled the most important provinces, such as Syria, Egypt, and Iraq.

While there is some truth to the importance of these regions, this argument still oversimplifies the situation.

First, some of these appointments predated ʿUthmān رضي الله عنه or were based on continuity. For example, Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān had already been established as a capable and effective governor under ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb. His retention reflects continuity of proven administration rather than nepotistic intent.

Second, authority in these regions was not absolute or isolated. Military leaders, tribal elites, and other officials, many of whom were not related to the caliph, shared influence and power.

Governance in the early caliphate was not a centralized bureaucratic system, but a complex network of relationships and responsibilities.

In conclusion, the allegations leveled against ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān رضي الله عنه are highly exaggerated and were most likely propagated by political opportunists seeking to spread discontent within his administration.

May Allāh be pleased with Dhū al-Nūrayn, Sayyidunā ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān رضي الله عنه.

Allah ﷻ knows best.

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

I, Omer Faruq, am calling for a total and complete shutdown of dayyuths entering the Islamic space

[Basedmujahid @Basedmujahid1]

Was sitting down happily then realised my nasseb could be getting cracked by some kafir right now. Even if she repented it’s still not the same. I’d actually divorce if I found she was a foid.

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

That is only an issue if your own numbers aren’t big enough (Croatia and Poland for example), not where Muslims are already a sizable voting bloc

Every British Muslim who leaves the UK puts the safety of his fellow British Muslim in further jeopardy

Get to 10% of the population

[Archetypical @Archetypical20]

@OmerMusafir It's not about whether they are legally equal. They are. It's more about living in a society where a growing portion of the population resents you.

[Azhaar @Azhaar3818]

Very jarring to hear of someone’s passing, even if you only recognise them by their Twitter username. May Allah forgive his sins, widen his grave, and grant strength to his family.

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

@Han31506417073 That's okay, women aren’t supposed to be good with money anyway

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

@nayana317668 New "bear vs man" just dropped

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

@Thedukeistheman @hashimiyy_ Because in your worldview, God doesn't exist.

You’re saying the same thing as us. God decides what is truly moral and obligatory. If there were no God, morality and obligations would be subjective.

[Indian Muslim Archives @Rustum_0]

Afonso de Albuquerque was Portuguese admiral who sent an expedition to conquer Mecca and Medina, exhume the body of the Prophet, and desecrate it along with his grave.

This caused great alarm among the Indian Muslims, who filled three massive ships with riches to fund the defence of the Prophet's honour. These ships were sent to the port of Jeddah and constituted the largest portion of the funding for the defence.

Apart from this, Muslim naval armadas across India were prepared to engage the Portuguese in Indian waters, thereby dividing Portuguese forces while the Muslims of the Middle East defended the Arabian theatre.

By the grace of God, the Portuguese were defeated.

[Adam Wren @aswren]

There are issues. As one example the ‘250k victims’ has gone around the world a few times today.

Getting as close as possible to the actual number has always been a goal of mine & I recognised it immediately as the House of Lords claim. His reasoning, seen here is that if you scale Rotherham across the country then it’s a reasonable estimate.

Luckily every town isn’t Rotherham, so the number likely isn’t close to this.

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

Think about what it does to the mind of a young Muslim when you shuffle them around to a different country every time a loud minority whips up a storm in a teacup

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

And give the people behind this sham precisely what they want.

Or, the young British Muslims could stand their ground.
Britain is their home just as much as it is Connor's.

[Archetypical @Archetypical20]

I've said it before but if I was a young British Muslim, given the social trajectory, I would just leave the country and find a future somewhere else.

[Femi @Femi_Mohammed1]

B’H - 786

PUBLIC STATEMENT: Femi Mohammed – Speaking Out as a Muslim Participant of MP Rupert Lowe’s CrowdFunded Rape Gang Inquiry.

PART 1
I am speaking out in the public interest, not only as a survivor myself, but for all women and girls of colour, Black and Muslim, whose voices have been systematically erased from the narrative of justice and accountability.

I was encouraged to participate in Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry by Sammy Woodhouse, who was contacted by a family member regarding my cases. I submitted evidence starting in August 2025 and participated in stages 1 and 2 of the inquiry, signing consent forms for my inclusion. My communications took place via phone, messaging, email, video, and Teams meetings with Sammy Woodhouse, Nat Enderby, and Marlon West, during which I detailed my sexual assault, threats, and attacks on my life, and the corruption, collusion, and manipulation of my cases by institutional authorities who were supposed to protect me.

After a call from Marlon West informing me that I had been allocated to give evidence at the hearings in London, a Teams meeting was held on the 7th January 2026 with Marlon West, Nat Enderby, and myself to discuss my victim statement, which I completed on the 8th January 2026.

On the 23rd January 2026, Sammy Woodhouse personally messaged me to invite me to attend the inquiry hearings on the 4th February 2026, between 2–3 pm. I accepted the invitation on the 24th January 2026, and Sammy booked my train tickets, emailing them to me on the 26th January 2026. (Please see images for evidence)

Within two days, everything changed, and I was removed from attending the hearings. On the 28th January 2026, I received a text message from Sammy Woodhouse asking me to call her; having spoken to her on numerous occasions, she did not seem her usual self and failed to provide a reason for my exclusion. Sammy Woodhouse is someone I had a lot of respect for, and it became apparent to me that the decision had come from someone at the top of the Inquiry. I felt betrayed and violated and was left in a state of shock, confusion, and despair.

On the 29th January 2026, I received a generic email from Sammy Woodhouse stating that I would not be required to give evidence. The email was sent via Kerie, one of The Rape Gang Inquiry support advocates, rather than directly from Inquiry Lead Sammy Woodhouse herself. It offered no explanation for my removal post-selection. I responded directly to Sammy and Kerie, requesting clarification; Kerie replied that she would speak to Sammy and get back to me.

The call from Kerie never came and I received no further communication from Sammy Woodhouse. On the 3rd February 2026, concerned about how my information would be used, I requested confirmation that my contributions and documents be permanently withdrawn from the inquiry records. (Please see images attached in Part 2, for evidence)

My removal is not an isolated incident; it is part of a broader pattern of discrimination, racial profiling, and the silencing of women of colour, especially female Muslim victims, within the victim and survivor movement. Despite my efforts to bring these issues to light by reaching out to other survivors, I have faced a deliberate attempt to suppress my voice and experience. This reflects a disturbing trend where the narrative of sexual exploitation and violence is often confined to a narrow group of victims, driven by those who financially and publicly benefit from our trauma. In this system, it has become big business, where division is created and profit is made from the perpetual suffering of victims and survivors.

CONTINUED IN PART 2

@Keir_Starmer @KemiBadenoch @ShabanaMahmood @KarlDenning @y_alibhai @AyoCaesar @faisalislam @TellMamaUK @ukhomeoffice
#MuslimWomenMatter #UKMuslims #JusticeForSurvivors #NationalInquiry

[capitolhunters @capitolhunters]

New today: Peter Thiel's secret society of illuminati had a website so insecure it exposed his entire membership list. And it's... interesting. His Palatantir folks, sure. Leonard Leo. The president of Stanford. Ezra Klein. And some D politicians who really shouldn't be there. 1/

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

https://t.co/FXLMPfQo3b

[Nightmare Vision @GodCloseMyEyes]

people are desperate to believe that a veneer of religiosity somehow suspends fundamental social dynamics. it ends up turning the identity into a handicap, the dynamics become mystified for the sake of protecting the materially operative one, which in this case is just feminism.

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

Men only stop selecting for markers of religiosity in women (the hijab for Muslims, the cross necklace for Christians) once liberal women have robbed those markers of all meaning

It's liberal women shooting trad women in the foot with their hollow performative religiosity

[♡ @ceruleannmist]

Once these mt trad women start realizing that a man will abandon all his values for an attractive woman because thats how fickle men are, they'll stop bending over backwards for male validation.

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

@AhmedSheriffdin "There is only one man" is unironically what Gregory of Nyssa says

[Doç. Dr. Mustafa Aylar @mustafa_aylar]

Bizi bunlardan kurtarıp İslam'ı kabul eden atalarımızdan Allah binlerce kez razı olsun.

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

@KhalilAndani Better arguments?

I get that it shows how much Christians love using red herrings and ad hoc explanations, but that's made obvious with any textual argument (Mark 10:18, John 17:3, Nehemiah 9:6, etc.)

It makes no sense to let our arguments stoop down to their level

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

@IjazTheTrini I don't see the benefit in diluting the quality of our da'wah to match theirs

It won't make them reflect on their missionary work, much less improve on it, and it's more likely that sincere people who aren't Muslim or Christian will see the arguments on both sides as equally bad

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

"They'll spend their time learning new hobbies instead of constantly guzzling culture war slop, the horror!"

[Omer Faruq @OmerMusafir]

People who built their online presence on validation from budding teenagers are now mad that they'll get much less of it

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

We're banning raves, because we don't want you having fun where we can't watch you. By the way let me tell you about Woodstock.

We're cracking down on underage drinking. It's bad for you. Yeah of course we hit up the pubs at your age it was great.

We're banning smoking, but just for you - the smoking age will go up one year every year. Oh yes of course, we used to be able to smoke inside everywhere, it was great really.

We're banning flavored vapes. We don't have any evidence they're bad for you, you just like them too much.

We're banning dodgeball during recess, someone might get hurt. Yeah we really enjoyed dodgeball too.

We're banning flirting, because it might make the girls uncomfortable.

We're locking you in your room for the next two years. Yes we know you're in no danger from the virus, but we're worried that you'll get us sick. By the way you have to take this needle if you want to leave your room again. Yes, twice. Well there will be boosters too. No, we aren't worried about side effects, that doesn't effect us at all.

We're closing the frat houses, because we don't want you having fun without our permission. Please join these officially sanctioned university clubs instead.

We're bringing in labor from the third world to work the service jobs, so you can't have a summer job.

You need to go to university to get a good job. By the way we're raising the price of tuition. Oh look we're raising it again. Don't worry there are loans. At interest.

Actually we're giving the good jobs to the foreigners we just imported, to make up for our racist past. We are very good people. No of course we aren't sacrificing anything. You just have to take one for the team.

Also, we're giving the foreigners the houses. We needed to increase real estate prices. For our pensions, you see. Sadly no, you'll probably never be able to afford one yourself. By the way don't forget to pay your taxes. Need to support those pensions somehow! Eh? No, we're giving ourselves tax breaks of course. Seniors discount you know.

Oh by the way, that one thing you still have, now that we've banned joy and kicked every ladder out from under you? That social media stuff you kids like? You guessed it! We're banning that too! Just for you though, we're still going to watch AI videos on Facebook. It's for your safety, you see. We've noticed that you're all getting rather irate, and we think it would be better for your mental health if you shut up for a while. Why don't you just go outside?

Eh? No of course we aren't going to stop Ahmed and his twelve illiterate cousins from raping your sister, that would be culturally insensitive, which would make us feel very bad, and we can't have that.