Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 160
161 for you and invested you with the energies and powers requisite to comply with the commandments, therefore, you will not be burdened when you comply with the injunctions. You are the millat of your father Ibrahim! Allah has named you Al-Musli mi n and called you the Muslim umma. This name has also been used for you in earlier scriptures, and the Holy Quran, too, mentions you with the name of Ummatam Muslimatan, Al- M usli mi n. This name has been given to you on account of the prayers made by Hadrat Ibrahim as that a Muslim umma may be raised in the world (with the advent of the best of Prophets), and his progeny may also join the Muslim umma. The Holy Quran claims in surah Al- H ajj that the prayer (and make of our offspring a people submissive to Thee), which is one of the verses related to the objectives of the Ka‘bah, has been answered, and that the time appointed for the fulfilment of the prophecies mentioned in earlier scriptures has approached. The Holy Prophet sa has been raised, and the Muslim umma has also been established. The reason for its establishment is that the time for the manifestation of spiritual and moral strengths, aptitudes and powers with which man was endowed has come. Now the world will witness how man utilizes his powers in the service of his Lord, and how he perfects his aptitudes. Islam means to lay one’s neck for sacrifice before his Lord, Allah the Exalted, becoming ever resigned to His will and relinquishing all his selfish desires and plans, that is, to be left with nothing for his own self;