“This is the Last Abode; we appoint it for those who desire not exorbitance in the earth, nor corruption. The issue ultimate is to the godfearing.”

— Umar II

Quran: Chapter 28, verse 83, quoted in History of the Prophets and Kings, Vol. 24, p. 102
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Umayyad caliph 681–720

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