A026
Surah: 022 - Ayah: 026
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22:26
According to the ta'wilic allusion of the verses (22:26-30) Hazrat Ibrahim was the ta'wil of the House of God (bayt Allah). And if we study the verse: "And proclaim unto mankind the pilgrimage" (22:27), with the real eye, it is the same story in which Hazrat Ibrahim had called the people of the world to him, through the four birds. Otherwise, what material means were there at that time to call all the people of the world? For by "people (al-nas)" is meant all the people, including the first ones and the last ones. This is the description of the personal resurrection of Hazrat Ibrahim.
Bayt (House)
Bayt is mentioned in verse (22:26): "And when We provided for IbrahIm the place of the House." The ta'wil of this verse is that God built His house in the personal world of Hazrat Ibrahim, because he was the Imam (2:124).
With respect to place and direction or place and time, the concept of God is based on three levels: Firstly, God dwells in a particular house as is the concept of the House of God mentioned in the verse 22:26; secondly, He is everywhere as mentioned in verse 2:115 and thirdly, He is free from and above space and non-space, because He is Subhan (free from attributes), Quddus (Holy) and Samad (i.e. He Himself is independent and everything depends on Him). It is an irrefutable fact that Islamic teaching and guidance is in a gradual form, and therefore it becomes incumbent upon every Muslim to, first firmly believe in the House of God and attach himself to it so that he may recognise from here the oneness of God. If someone does not understand the wisdom of this fundamental concept and ignores it, he cannot attain the treasures of the second and third concepts. For, to go against Divine law leads to failure.
The ta’wilic implication of verse (22:26) is that God appointed Hazrat Ibrahim as His House so that the recognition of tawhid may be attained in the spirituality and luminosity of this rank, and nothing is associated with Him. God has also commanded this living House of His (i.e. Hazrat Ibrahim himself) to be purified ideologically, spiritually and intellectually, so that three kinds of angels may come there, and they are those who circumambulate, those who do qiyam or ictikaf and those who bow and prostrate.
In his time the Holy Prophet was God’s living House (22:26) and the luminous and miraculous Jamacat-khanah, for as it is said in verse (33:33): "Verily, God intends but to keep away from you (every kind of) uncleanness, O you people of the (luminous) house, and to purify you in every respect (externally and internally)". This holy house was the light of Prophethood and Imamat and the people of the house were the Holy Five Persons, namely, Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa, Hazrat cAli-i Murtaza, Hazrat Fatimah-i Zahra, Hazrat Hasan-i Mujtaba and Hazrat Husayn-i Sayyid-i shuhada’. This luminous house is the speaking House of God and the intellectual and spiritual Jamacat-khanah, and it is the house of wisdom about which the Holy Prophet has said: "I am the house of wisdom and cAli is its door." It is also the same blessed and holy house in which, according to verse (24:36), the lamp of the Divine light is lit.
This verse has been referred 7 times.