Ali 'Imran 96: Undoubtedly, (the Kaaba in) Makkah is the first House (of worship) for mankind, established as a blessing and a source of guidance for the worlds.
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Undoubtedly, (the Kaaba in) Makkah is the first House (of worship) for mankind, established as a blessing and a source of guidance for the worlds.
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In order for people to receive their share of blessings and guidance, Allah (swt) built the Baytullah, which is located where it is today, as the first house on earth, which He made Hazrat Adam mark its location, and symbolized the Baytullah as the first house on earth.
In this verse, Allah (swt) tells people that His Bayt was the first house; After creating this universe, He took Adam (peace be upon him) out of Paradise and brought him down to earth. Then He built him his beyt as the first house. He took human beings from the world of Berzah and made them descendants of Hadrat Adam on earth. He made these people taste death like a changing of the guard and sent people from generation to generation to the earth to introduce and visit His beyt. With the coming of people from generation to generation until our time and the coming of people after us until the Day of Judgment, he states that his Bayt will remain until the Day of Judgment and that it will be visited as the first house for people. Also, the first house means that since Allah (swt) is eternal and everlasting and there is no other deity besides Him, He is the first house as the house of His essence.
In this case, Allah declares that there is no other God but Allah and that Allah is the One who is alive, i.e. He is the Giver of life to the worlds and is eternal in His Essence. He invites people to His Essence by declaring that what He has created in the universe will one day come to an end and that all souls will taste death. By making His presence so palpable in our midst, Allah (swt) makes His presence known to us with His nearness, and by making His presence known to us, Allah (swt) makes it clear to us that as a result of an inevitable end, we will give an account of our life in this world in the presence of Allah (swt).
Since Allah (swt) created us incomplete and faulty, we may commit mistakes knowingly or unknowingly. We may see ourselves as very sinful and wonder if we can be cleansed from our sins, Allah (swt) says in His verse (blessing and guidance to the worlds); O people! You have visited me by knowing me as the Creator and by visiting my Bayt, proving that there is no other God but Allah and that you want to be cleansed from your sins by asking for forgiveness from me, or that you love me very much and you have come all the way here. And I have forgiven you your sins and made you as pure as if you had just been born from your mother.
Allah (swt) says that whoever comes to My Bayt and visits Me is visiting Me in My presence, even though He is present everywhere.
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Indeed, the first house established for people as a source of blessing and guidance for the worlds, the house of worship, is the Kaaba in Mecca.
The first house established for people as a source of blessing and guidance for the worlds. Is it really the first, Hodja? Yes, the first house. When Adam left Paradise and came to the world, there was no house or anything, no shelter at all. When he approached Mecca the Honoured with Eve, approaching the place of today's House of Allah, as he approached it, he says: O Allah, send that column which was a column of light in Paradise, so that I may again worship around it, he says. And so Allah Almighty sends him His first house, that is, on earth His (?), outward house, the House of Allah. As a column of light.
Then it continues until Seth. In Seth's time it disappears, and a black stone remains in its place. Today's Black Stone (Hajar al-Aswad). Seth (peace be upon him) knew the measurements. Within those measurements he made a representative form of the House of Allah, set the stone properly, and it has lasted until now. So that people may receive a share of blessing and guidance, Allah Almighty on earth as the first house, that is, as a home, had built the House of Allah, whose place He had Adam point out, and which stands in its present place, and as the first house on earth His House He has (?).
In this verse, by telling people that His House is the first house, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, after creating this universe, brought Adam (peace be upon him) out of Paradise and sent him down to the world. Then He had him build His House as the first house. Taking people from the world of barzakh, on earth from the offspring of Adam He brought them forth. Making these people taste death as at a changing of the guard, from generation to generation sending people to earth, He made His House known and had it visited. Up to our time, with people coming generation after generation, and after us too with people coming until the Day of Judgement, He declares that His House will remain until the Day of Judgement and will be visited as the first house for people.
Whoever goes to the House of Allah, and visits it, performs the hajj, the pilgrim, it says, is as if newly born from his mother. Allah invites His servants to His Essence. To His Essence. Although He is present and watching everywhere, He says: at the House of Allah one is personally in My presence. Personally. People go to the House of Allah with this awareness. If at the time of hajj he fulfils the hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, there Allah Almighty cleanses that servant because he has come to His (?). And those who cannot go there, those who cannot go, kiss the palm of the pilgrim's hand.
Why do they kiss it? Well, now, while the pilgrim circles the House of Allah, between the Black Stone and the Yemeni Corner he goes in. What does he say? Rabbenâ âtinâ fi'd-dünyâ haseneten ve fi'l-âhirati haseneten ve kınâ azâbe'n- nâr ve edhilne'l-cennete mea'l-ebrâr yâ Azîzu yâ Gaffâr yâ Rabbe'l-âlemîn, he says. He raises his hand towards the Black Stone. He sees it like that and wipes it over his face. That is: O Allah, I have come here. 'I have (?) my covenant and renewed my covenant,' he says. The one who could not go there kisses the palm of that pilgrim who saw the Black Stone. O Allah, my money or my situation did not allow it, I could not go, but I too am upon that covenant, he says, and kisses the palm of his hand.
Kissing the palm has this meaning.
Thus it makes known that there is no other god but Allah and that Allah is the Ever-Living, that is, the One who gives life to the worlds and is everlasting in His Essence. Declaring that what He created in the universe will one day come to an end, that every soul will taste death, He invites people to His Essence. Allah Almighty makes His existence felt among us so much, in a perceptible way, to us making His Essence known through His nearness: that as the result of an unavoidable end, in the presence of Allah Almighty we will give account for our life in this world, He openly declares to us.
Because Allah Almighty created us deficient and fallible, we may knowingly or unknowingly commit errors. So that we do not see ourselves as great sinners and say: can we be cleansed of these sins of ours? Allah Almighty, with the word (?), to the worlds saying 'blessing and guidance': O people! By knowing My Essence as Creator and visiting My House, that there is no other god besides Allah and saying (?), wanting to be cleansed of your sins, or proving that you love Me dearly, you came all the way here, you visited Me, and I have forgiven your sins, made you spotless as if newly born from your mother, He says. Who? Let no one say: I came for hajj, but have my sins been forgiven? He says.
He is as if newly born from his mother. Although Allah Almighty is present and watching everywhere, whoever comes to My House and visits it has visited Me personally in My presence, He says.