Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page xiii
xiii Foreword The Holy Ka‘bah was first founded by Hadrat Adam as for the benefit of the whole humankind. Unfortunately, the world failed to recognize its grandeur, and it fell into ruin obliterating the very sign of its existence. Then Allah the Almighty revealed its exact location to Hadrat Ibrahim as and had it rebuilt at his hands, and inspired him to dedicate his own life as well as his progeny for the service of this House in order to protect it, and to establish its grandeur in the world. His descendants served this House of Allah for about twenty-five hundred years, hence, a people were prepared who were capable of bearing the enormous responsibilities of the most prefect and immaculate universal shariah. As the Ka‘bah was the centre for all humanity from the outset, this House of Allah, again, was meant to become a centre for the unification of humanity in the latter and consummate time. Hadrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad rh , the third successor of the Promised Messiah as , started a series of Friday sermons in 1967, elaborating the mentioned in seven verses of surah A l-e-‘Imr a n and Al-Baqarah and elaborated how the twenty-three objectives mentioned in the verses relate to the person and time of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa and how some of the objectives will find their fulfilment through the Ahmadiyya Jam a ‘at founded by the Promised Messiah as. The