Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 13
13 the hereafter, it can be achieved in this temporal life as well. Allah the Almighty meant here that He founded this House and provided means for its protection with the aim of raising a people who would be awarded with such a reward and they would abide in such a heaven of God’s pleasure that had never been bestowed upon the past peoples. The best possible result of good deeds by any human being will be the result of the deeds of this umma, because the shariah granted to them is immaculate and perfect in every respect. The shariahs of the former people were relatively deficient; therefore, even if they had been acted upon in full, our common sense tells us, they could never have produced the same result as that of deeds according to the shariah which is perfect in all respects. Here Allah the Almighty says that the fountain of that universal shariah will gush forth from this House and by following it, man will be granted a heaven both in this world and in the hereafter. Thus, the third objective (which is subdivided into further objectives) of the House of Allah is (a guidance for all peoples). The fourth objective of building this House is suggested in (manifest Signs). A study of the Holy Quran reveals that it holds the promise of certain types of manifest signs to man or prophecies about them. In my view, at this point (manifest signs) does not refer to the general meaning, rather it denotes those manifest signs which are associated with the first House which is (founded for mankind), (abounding in blessings) and (a