Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 51
52 higher than ‘absolute justice’ and attain to the station of ‘kindness’ but not go beyond that. If they forsook the station of ‘kindness’ and notwithstanding their faculties they fell below justice, then remember, they would be deprived of numerous blessings they could have attained otherwise. This is not an inconsequential loss, rather it is a very serious one. Yet, some of you are such as attain, or can attain, the station of ‘kinship’, which is a station beyond both of the earlier ones. To them Allah says that they should not be content with ‘kindness’, or else they would deprive themselves of matchless and unparalleled Divine favours, grace and blessings. In short, Islam establishes equality, brotherhood and love among human beings on the basis of these three pillars. I am short of time, now; otherwise, I wanted to talk on this objective at length as this subject is one of the basis of the twenty-three objectives. The last objective is also as important as this one, and I shall touch on the ones in between briefly. An Ahmadi friend had a dream also in this regard. (He could not understand the interpretation of this dream). A few days back he wrote to me that he saw me (and some of my associates) in Qadian close to the stairs of that part of Mubarak Mosque which was built later. (There may be many youths among you who could not understand as they have never been to Qadian. But those who have been there know that the portion of Mubarak Mosque built later had stairs leading to a crossing. ) He saw that he was standing there with some friends, meanwhile I