Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 76
77 After Tashahhud, Ta‘awwuz and surah Al-F a ti h ah H u du r recited the following verse from the Holy Quran: “In it are manifest Signs; it is the place of Abraham; and whoso enters it, enters peace. And pilgrimage to the House is a duty which men – those who can find a way thither – owe to Allah. ” 35 And said, I have been expounding on the twenty-three objectives of the House of Allah for which Allah the Exalted had the foundations of the Ka‘bah raised at the hands of Hadrat Ibrahim as , and that how these objectives were achieved through the Holy Prophet sa. I have already spoken on three of these objectives in my previous sermons. The fourth objective of the House of Allah, or in other words, the fourth promise of God Almighty to Hadrat Ibrahim as was (In it are manifest Signs). I told you that Allah the Exalted had made a promise to Hadrat Ibrahim as saying that this House would become a source of everlasting manifest Signs and Divine support. That is to say, the purpose of the construction of this House was to raise an umma, by whose virtue Divine signs would continue to be manifested to the world until the end of time. The Holy Quran claims that this door is opened until the last day only for him who lives up to the