Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 28
29 The eighteenth objective of building the House is that the world shall realize that only those witness the manifestation of the attribute of All-Hearing of their Lord who pray fervently to Him in the given manner, and then witness that their Lord is He Who listens. He responds to prayers, and says: I have granted your prayers. Thus, by virtue of building the House of Allah the world will come to recognize the All-Hearing God. The nineteenth objective is that the world will recognize the Omniscient God through this House. Not that on account of his imperfect knowledge a person will always be granted whatever he prayed for; nay, his Lord will answer his prayer when he will pray and take the prayer to its zenith. Rather, God will grant it in keeping with His knowledge of the unseen, that is, only in the manner the prayers should be answered. The rejection of some of the prayers, or the acceptance of some in a form different from what was sought in the prayer will not mean that God is not the All-Hearing or Omnipotent. On the contrary, it will prove that only Allah the Exalted possesses the knowledge of the unseen. Thus, the Ka‘bah has been founded so as to familiarize and acquaint people with their Omniscient God. The twentieth objective is ( make of our offspring a people submissive to Thee) that is, we request God that Muslim umma be raised from among our progeny. In this verse Allah the Exalted expressed His objective that at the time of the advent of Muhammad sa as a Prophet, his people should be