Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 148
149 itself in consequence of which a person is left with no inclination towards the creation, or towards his own self, or towards his own designs, and is entirely lost in the love of God, and by the manifestation of the existence of that Reality his own existence and the existence of the rest of creation appear as naught. ” 70 The eighteenth objective pointed out was that as a result of setting up the Ka‘bah the world would acquire true realization of Allah the All-Hearing. An umma would be raised here who would introduce the All-Hearing Allah to the world. The world cannot deny the fact that only those people witness the manifestations of Allah’s attribute of All-Hearing who keep themselves engaged in supplications with humility. Allah the Exalted says in surah Al-Mu’min: 71 And your Lord says: Pray unto Me; I will answer your prayer. But those who are too proud and turn their back on My worship, that is, the worship that I accept, and about which I have said at another place in the Holy Quran that your worship must be accompanied by your supplications; and those who, out of their arrogance, do not elevate their worship to the state of submission will surely enter the hell despised. They will enter the hell of failure and My wrath and fury. Similarly Allah the Exalted says: