Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 125
126 (while you remain in the mosques for devotion) that at every place where the Muslim umma set up the reflection of the House of Allah on the basis of righteousness you would have to sit there like a devotee, or else this objective would not be achieved. I would not like to go into detail of it, but it occurred to me that if one objective of building the House of Allah is that devotees from every nation and every region should come and settle in the centre or in its reflection, then devotion and migration are quite analogous to each other. History reveals that not only from Mecca but also from other regions and clans people migrated to Medina and settled there. Their migration from their people or country was not like that of the migration from Mecca, but was like a devotee who, leaving his region, severing ties with his relatives, abandoning his household and estate comes in the centre for the sake of God and works in various regions of the world as is required by the centre. For example, there was a clan Ash’ariyy i n in Yemen; Abu M u s a Ash‘ar i , an eminent and noble companion of the Holy Prophet sa , belonged to this clan. He had migrated along with eighty people to Medina. Similarly, scores of other clans find mention in history who had migrated to Medina to benefit from the companionship of the Holy Prophet sa. Abu Hurairah ra is also one of them. The fourteenth objective was discussed in (and those who bow down and fall prostrate in prayer ) and it was told that all the peoples in the world would, because of this House acquire true