Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 137
138 brought, we should be snatched away from our land. The world would become our enemy and adversary, and would take on to annihilate us. We cannot stand against them. Why should we cause the means of our destruction by embracing this teaching? God Almighty says: (Have We not established for them a safe sanctuary. ) That is, do they not know that We linked this Prophet and the shariah with H aram , and made the House of Allah an emblem of the fact that the Prophet and its followers would be under the protection of God Almighty, and that the responsibility of protecting the shariah, revealed to the Prophet, would also be only on Him. The world history bears testimony that Allah the Almighty has kept His promise of protecting the H aram (precincts) of the Ka‘bah. The assaulters have always suffered disgrace and been routed. The world also bears testimony and will continue to do so that no power, no machination or conspiracy of the world can frustrate the Holy Prophet sa and his objective; nor can any interpolation find its place into the Quranic shariah. Here Allah the Almighty says that do they not see that We have settled them in a protected and peaceful place: in the sanctuary of the Ka‘bah, in the sanctuary of the nobility of the Holy Prophet sa and in the sanctuary of the Islamic shariah, that is, the Holy Quran. All of these are protected entities, personages and places. If you establish a firm relationship with this H aram [the precincts of Ka‘bah] you, too, will come