Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 32
33 complying with all that is lawful and shunning all that is unlawful out of fear of Allah the Almighty, and making earnest supplications to Him, they would attain such immaculate purification of the self (merely as a result of Divine grace and not because of their personal endeavours) and such perfect purification theirs would be, and they would enjoy such pleasure and approbation of God as had never been granted to any other people. In short, Allah the Almighty says, the twenty-third objective of building the House of Allah is that a Khairur Rusul that is, the Best of the Prophets, be sent to the world in order to raise man to the lofty stations for which he was created. May Allah the Almighty make us, too, out of His grace, among those people, for we are extremely weak, incapable, sinful, stupid and deeply sunk into carnal desires. But if He graciously wished, He might lift us from our lowly state to the pinnacle of purification promised to the Muslim umma. In the forthcoming sermons, inshallah, I will describe at length as to how these twenty-three objectives were fulfilled by the Holy Prophet as. I am trying to gradually draw your attention towards an important point which I have already alluded to, that is, Allah the Almighty has drawn my attention towards an important issue which is vital for the proper education of the members of the Jam a ‘at. Anyway, I am trying to prepare your mind for it. But until and unless Allah the Almighty makes my