The Crying of Hazrat Umer Farooq (RAA)

Two black streaks had appeared on Hazrat UmarRazi Allah Anhu's face because of excessive crying (before Allah). When the grief overtook him, he used to dress himself in a short piece of cloth that barely covered his thighs, and kept wailing and crying and asking Allah for forgiveness for his sins. His eyes were continuously wet, until he used to faint. Whenever such an episode happened, he used to stop coming out of his house, and people used to go to inquire about his health, considering him to be ill.

Excerpt from Did You Even Know, an article by Hazrat Major Ghulam Muhammad