Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 9
9 of the colour, race and difference of certain other distinctions which distinguish one from the other, would derive both material and spiritual benefits from this House. This is the first objective of rebuilding this House. The second objective of building the House of Allah is that He wants to make it (abounding in blessings). And is a place which is declivitous from all around where water gathers from all sides when it rains. The point of discussion here is not the rain, rather it is the welfare and success of mankind in worldly and spiritual matters. The connotation of , therefore, is of dual nature. Firstly, the representatives of all the peoples will continue gathering here. Secondly, I [God] had the House built and inhabited to establish a shariah here; a law-bearing Prophet would be raised here in whose shariah would be converged numerous forms of guidance and also all spiritual veracities which were to be found individually in various shariahs; and no veracity would have been left out of it. Allah says that He wants to make this House from the spiritual point of view and that this will become the birthplace of a shariah that will combine in itself all the paths of righteousness found in the shariahs of the previous Prophets, and it will carry blessings with it. That is to say, all the injunctions which had never been previously made obligatory by God, because mankind was not mature enough to bear with them, would also form a part of it. In essence, this will be a comprehensive shariah which will be for the