Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 6
6 Ibrahim as a place of prayer) and the eleventh objective has been mentioned in (purify my House). The twelfth objective is mentioned in (those who perform the circuit), thirteenth in (those who remain therein for devotion) and fourteenth in (those who bow down and fall prostrate in prayer ). The fifteenth objective has been mentioned in (My Lord, make this a town of peace), sixteenth in (and provide its dwellers with fruits), seventeenth in (Our Lord, accept this from us) and eighteenth in (All-Hearing). The nineteenth objective in (All-Knowing), twentieth in (and make of our offspring a people submissive to Thee), twenty-first in (and show us our ways of worship), twenty-second in (and turn to us with mercy) and the twenty-third objective has been mentioned in (our Lord, raise up among them a Messenger from among themselves). Allah the Almighty observes that the first House founded for all mankind was built in Mecca. From various traditions [of the Holy Prophet sa ] and Quranic verses I have reached the conclusion that when “our Adam as ” was born and raised to Prophethood the world was populated in only a small region. (I have used the word "our Adam" purposely on account of the fact that the Holy Prophet sa had said that as many as 100,000 Adams were born in the world prior to our Adam. Some Muslim saints have mentioned in their books that they have seen the