Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 184
185 who benefits from the manifest signs, he who acquires the knowledge of injunctions and prohibitions of the perfect shariah and becomes conversant with the philosophy thereof and complies with them and attains the purification of soul; that person and that people are those about whom was said, (founded for mankind) in the beginning of these verses, and was also said, (you are the best people, raised for the good of mankind). Thus, the verses were began with the words (Surely, the first House founded for mankind) and was concluded at (And our Lord, raise up among them a Messenger from among themselves). In fact the twenty-two objectives mentioned in these verses cannot be achieved without the points raised in , on which I have shed some light. And the Muslim umma cannot become the best umma unless those objectives are achieved. Now I would like to read out to you two extracts from the writings of the Promised Messiah as about the Holy Quran’s being (the Book) and about the wisdom in this shariah. He says: “Of all the current revealed books on earth the Holy Quran is the only book which is conclusively proven to be the Word of God… Its doctrines are so perfect and firm that irrefutable proofs bear witness to their truth. Its commandments are based only upon truth…. It possesses the excellence that… It does not impose any doctrine by mere authority, but sets down the reasons for the truth of