Since its creation Mankind has at least physically, if not intellectually been kept shackled to the earth by its gravitational pull until only recently. Thanks to Astrophysical Sciences mankind now soars through the heavens, orbits the Earth in the International Space Station and walks on the moon and takes ‘a giant step for mankind’ and is aiming for Mars. Men and women thus observe with their own eyes that the earth is anything but ‘flat’ and therefore mankind can conclude that the earth has no ‘Centre’ on its surface.
In addition to religious focuses there are other types too. For example, politically many may believe that Washington DC is the Earth’s Centre today as was London or Brussels, Beijing, Rome, Baghdad, Istanbul and myriads of other capitals; both in the East and the West, were in the years gone by. However, there is one bond that still remains for humans to break free from on this planet Earth. And that is the Religious bondage of focuses on the face of the earth dating from ancient to present times. Recent ones still in use are such centres as Lhasa, Vatican, Ajodhya, Qum, Jerusalem, Mecca and more. Most of them purely spiritual and religious in nature, but physically the centre of the Earth!
The last mentioned city is considered, by a large portion of humanity to be the seminal place of Islam and a birth place of the Final propagator of it, the Messenger Mohammad. His followers believe that Mecca not only is the religious Centre – Quibla, focus of the planet Earth but God’s Capital on earth. This raises a few pertinent questions to ponder upon, based on the History as we know it; of the early Muslims community’s struggle to establish a successful and Earthly State and ask:-
If the city of Mecca is the city of peace and security, “balad-ul-ameen” 95-3 as given in Quran, then why did not God’s messenger get the peace and security there in the struggle to establish God’s own commands? Why did he have to flee from there?
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