Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 72
73 prosper. Fal a h is an Arabic word which means ‘complete success’, which is superior to any other success, which is flawless and has no defect of any kind in it and which is a phenomenal success. The Holy Quran says here that those who hold fast to the guidance from their Lord (Who, nurturing mankind, brought them to a certain lofty station in the time of the Prophet Muhammad sa and endowed them with perfect faculties and abilities) achieve a true and a perfect success and surpass all the past nations. I have expounded on the two objectives associated with the building of the House of Allah in this sermon. First, Allah had wished to bless the Ka‘bah, and with the advent of the Holy Prophet sa the House of Allah became blessed from the standpoint of both the meanings. Second, Allah had wished to send there a universal guidance which would be both immaculate and beneficial, and this promise also has been fulfilled by the Holy Quran. Otherwise, there was no other shariah in Mecca at all. But the other shariahs have neither made any claim nor could have they made any. Only the Holy Quran holds such a claim and it has also proved it practically. Millions of holy personages have appeared in Islam whose lives were a testimony to the fact that he who lives by the teachings of the Holy Quran and follows its guidance, which has been declared as (a guidance for all peoples) by God, partakes of the ultimate Divine blessings and certainly meets an enviable end. Anything which is a requisite for the perfection of human soul and its