Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 83
84 The fifth objective of building the Ka‘bah was (the place of Ibrahim). And it was promised that by virtue of the (spiritual) station of Ibrahim as a party of those who would love God Almighty would always be raised. They will sacrifice all their desires for the sake of His will and would shun every earthly filth and attain the status of being lost in Him. A rumination will make it clear that the achievement of the station of Ibrahim as is possible only as a result of manifest signs and is not possible otherwise. The 'manifest signs' and 'station of Ibrahim' are closely associated with each other. A sea of manifest signs is always raging in the Muslim umma, therefore, the appearance of hundreds of thousands of holy personages, who attained the station of Ibrahim as , became possible in the umma of Muhammad sa. The station of Ibrahim as is, in fact, a reflection of the station of Muhammad sa. One can never attain to the station of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa , but second in position after that is the station of Ibrahim as. Hadrat Ibrahim as partook of the manifest signs by way of reflection. The Holy Quran claims that legions of people will appear among its followers who will attain the station of Fan a [being lost]. What is this station of Fan a ? The Promised Messiah as expounds on it in the following words: “There is a station of personal love and only the true followers of the Holy Quran are invested with it. The love of God affects so much the whole of their body and soul that it becomes the reality of their selves, rather it becomes the life of their soul; and an unfamiliar type of love surges in their hearts