Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah

by Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad

Page 120 of 220

Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 120

121 The twelfth objective of building the House of Allah is discussed in the word, (for those who perform the circuit). This word indicates to the fact that people from all the nations in the world would gather here time and again to be educated on matters of cleanliness and purification, and that they would communicate and propagate, what they would learn, to their people when they went back to their regions. This objective, too, was achieved, in true sense, only by the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. In relation to this objective the Holy Quran commands: 60 That is, it is not possible for the believers to gather all together in the centre of Islam, as all the nations in the world have been addressed by Islam. All of them together can never assemble in the centre of Islam at any one point in time. But it is also important for all the nations to keep in firm touch with the centre. For this objective Allah the Almighty says, it is not possible for all of you to gather here all together. Why, then, does not a party from every section of them go forth that they may warn their people when they return to them, so that they may guard against evil by way of warning and intimidation. Thus, at this point, the Holy Quran commands the Muslim umma, which is formed with people from