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118 the former practice which tied down acts of worship to particular premises: in Islam the only role of any locality for the purpos: is confined to the requirementsof organisation for occasions when worship best fulfilled its purpose it done as a corporate act by an assembly of people of the same way of thinking. . Prior to the time of the Holy Prophet worship had to be performed at the synagogue, the church or the temple: but the Holy Prophet said: "The whole earth for me has been made into a mosque, so that I can worship anywhere and every. where when the time comes for worship". One might say that since the eater teachings were confined to certain periods or localities, the act of worship too had to be performed ince rtam specified localities: but when in the Islamic dispensation the order came for the whole surface of the earth to be purified as an embodiment of the Kingdom of. Heaven, the Muslims were directed to sanctify every inch of the ground with their acts of adoration. جعِلَتْ لِي الْأَرْضُ مَسْجِداً. Revelation in Specific Words. Fifthly, all the revelations came to the Holy. Prophet in specific, precise words, which not only had to be preserved as they stood, but God Himself guaranteed their preservation in thef ullestse nse. . This, for the future, made a great difference for the