Peace be upon you!
The purpose of every mosque is that people gather in it to worship One
God. To thank God for a mosque is made, it is needed to populate it
for five daily prayers with high standards of worship.
Whether one is a person of high grandeur or very poor, the object of
creation of both kinds is mentioned as: And I have not created the
jinn and the man but they may worship me (51:57) .
Regardless of wordly positions, people stand together as one entity in
one place, humbly in presence of Allah to worship Him. It increases
the grace of His blessings more than before. Hence, reward of offering
a prayer in mosque is twenty seven times greater, according to a
hadith.
Reward of each deed is dependent upon its intention, according to
another hadith. It means in a mosque one must join others in worship
without discriminatory feelings against others to get high rewards.
For those who forget real object of prayer /salat woe is said
(107:5) .
It is very important to purify one=92s thoughts to draw benefits from
salat / prayer. Point is explained by the blessed promised messiah
(mta.tv) as : Salat during which the heart is wandering somewhere,
thoughts are elsewhere and the mouth is uttering something else is a
curse. It is thrown back and is not accepted=85..Only that salat is real
which gives pleasure. Such a salat is a source of generating hatred
for sin. This is very salat about which it is said that it is the
zenith of a believer and is a source of progression for a believer.
The wealth of belief is to be safeguarded all times as satan tries to
steal it all the times. To save this wealth, one has to continuously
seek God=92s blessings and strive to purify the self against the greed
and materialism. With the grace of God, community of promised messiah
has made mosques worldwide. Sacrifice and power of belief is their
wealth. They have no oil wealth or piles of money.
While in a mosque, no wordly matters are discussed. When one go there
only to seek God=92s pleasure, no bad thought can stay.
Thus the benefit of making mosque is only when mosques are made with
pure intention and one go there with pure heart. It is a sad
observation that in some of them, abusive language is used for other
religious sects. And sometimes two groups create restlessness there
and government authorities have to intervene.
Only making a good looking mosque is not enough. Worshippers are
needed who has beautiful hearts and pure intentions, who spread love
and affection, and who turn to Allah with sincerity. To bring human
close to God and to promote love and brotherhood is the purpose of
promised reformer.
The person dear to God is the one who progresses in righteousness. God
has taught to attain righteousness through observance of salat /
prayer and honoring His other rights and His creation=92s rights. And
this is the reforming call now, to nit the listeners together in terms
of high standards of worship, mutual care, love and purity of hearts
for each other. It is to follow the model of blessed holy prophet
whose life and death, whose waking and sleep was to attain pleasure of
God. It will make acceptance. It will make internal peace and then
message of peace can be taken to others.
May Allah the Exalted enable all to live with love and friendliness
with aim to receive His pleasure. Ameen.
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