Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 22
23 love and sacrifice. A people, representing all the peoples and ages will be raised who, like Hadrat Ibrahim as , will be immersed in love of God, and the avenues of seeking nearness to God will always welcome them. These are the five objectives I had discussed at length in the last Friday sermon. I will have to revert to each of them to justify how each one of these objectives is associated with the advent of the Holy Prophet sa and how and in what form that was achieved. Therefore, I intend to describe the objectives very briefly so that I could discuss the remainder of the twenty-three objectives in today’s sermon. It may happen as God may please. Allah the Almighty says, (whoso enters it, enters peace) the sixth objective of building the House of Allah is, whoso enters it, that is to say, whoso observes the worship associated with the House of Allah, will come under God’s protection from the hell of this world and the hereafter, and all his past sins will be forgiven. Thus, the sixth objective of building the House of Allah is to make it a place with which certain forms of worship are associated; whoever performed them fully and perfectly and with sincere intention is promised forgiveness of all his past sins, and that he would be protected from the fire of hell. The seventh objective of building this House is (And pilgrimage to the House is a duty). It is an obligation, not only for the descendants of Hadrat Ibrahim as or that of the Arabs, to make