This is an English version of an Urdu treatise - Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah - a series of Friday Sermons delivered by the third successor of the Promised Messiah in 1967. The sermons are one of the finest and sublimest commentaries on the verses related to the Ka’bah, the House of Allah, and expound how magnificently the twenty-three objectives related in the verses have been fulfilled by the advent of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. As the Ka’bah was the centre for all mankind at the outset, this House of Allah, again, was meant to become a centre for the unification of mankind in the latter and consummate time, so as both the Prophet and Qibla of human unification may be joined to belong to one place. Allah wants the Jama’at Ahmadiyya to realize the Divine wisdom behind the foundation of the Ka’bah so that they are considered the people of understanding in the sight of Allah and join the group of those purified ones who are showered upon the grace of Allah all the time.

Hazrat Sahibzada Mirza Nasir Ahmad(rta) after having been elected as Khalifatul Masih III, the head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, visited six countries of West Africa—Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, The Gambia and Sierra Leone—in 1970. During his tour he also launched the blessed Nusrat Jahan Scheme (otherwise called Africa Leap Forward) while he was in The Gambia. The object of the scheme was and is to serve African nations by the Ahmadiyya contributions to open schools and hospitals etc. On his return to Pakistan, he gave an account of this tour of his in this Friday sermon, dated June 12, 1970.

Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad(rta) – Khalifatul-Masih III (the third successor of The Promised Messiah), in the capacity of Khalifatul-Masih, on his first visit to some countries of Europe and Africa delivered a public lecture on 28 July 1967 at the Wandsworth Town Hall, London. It was later published under the title A Message of Peace and a Word of Warning and is being presented here again. In this lecture Huzoor introduces the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Movement itself and after mentioning the purpose of coming of the Promised Messiah(as), he concludes his lecture with the wording of The Promised Messiah(as) "O Europe, you are not safe and O Asia, you too, are not immune. And O dwellers of Islands, no false gods shall come to your rescue. I see cities fall and settlements laid waste. The One and the Only God kept silent for long. Heinous deeds were done before His eyes and He said nothing. But now He shall reveal His face in majesty and awe. Let him who has ears hear that the time is not far. I have done my best to bring all under the protection of God, but it was destined that what was written should come to pass. Truly do I say, that the turn of this land, too, is approaching fast. The times of Noah shall reappear before your eyes and your own eyes will be witnesses to the calamity that overtook the cities of Lot. But God is slow in His wrath. Repent that you may be shown mercy! He who does not fear Him is dead not alive."

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