Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 87
88 lives in wiping out Islam) surrendered without fighting; and the angels, who descended from the heaven, terrified them to the extent that they could not gather courage to fight. But this verse has another connotation as well, that is, you are the very umma who is to fulfill the promise given to Hadrat Ibrahim as in these words (whoso enters it, enters peace). This promise has seen fulfilment in you. I have explained to you that all these promises are related to the whole of mankind, every people, and every age, and they are not peculiar to any one people or time. Thus, the phrase, (whoso enters it, enters peace) means that a person, no matter what people or age he belongs to, if he performs the Hajj rituals with sincere intention, he will become secure against the hellfire. Hadrat Abu Hurairah ra is reported to have said that the Holy Prophet sa said: (Remember that these words can be pronounced in both ways as ‘ Yarfas ’ and ‘ Yarfis ’, and ‘ Yafsuq ’ and ‘ Yafsiq ’ in Arabic) that is, one who abstains from foul and vulgar talk, that is, while performing the Hajj rituals he abstains from foul talk; which means his inner self is so purified that he restrains himself from talking evil. It does not mean that for some days during the eleven months he should indulge in every kind of foul talk and refrain from it only during the prescribed days. Rather, it means that