Abstract:
The mosque holds a special and prominent position in Islamic culture, where the weak and needy human being establishes a connection with the Almighty and Self-Sufficient Creator through humility and prostration. For this reason, a believing person who enters the mosque enters weak and humble and leaves powerful and honored. Of course, a human can bow before divine greatness everywhere and thereby establish a relationship with His Holy Essence; however, the best and closest place is the mosque. The mosque, in every part of the world, is the House of God and the greatest cultural base. It can certainly be said that after the Kaaba, which is the Qibla of mosques and the House of God, the mosque is considered the holiest place. The mosque is the best university and provider of the highest methods of education and training, the best place for accelerating good deeds, the best position for allegiance to the Wilayah, the best position for coordination against the enemy, the best place for gaining honor, the best place for choosing a colleague, a thinker, a companion, and a conversationalist, the supreme position for creating social unity, the highest place for the rest of body and soul, etc.
Machine summary:
Is this closure and prevention of remembrance, prayer, supplication, and breathing in such a sacred place not truly an embodiment of verse 114 of Surah Al-Baqarah, which says: ; "Who is more unjust than he who prevents the mention of God's name in His mosques and strives for their destruction?!
Based on this noble verse, although every sin is an injustice and polytheism—which is the source of all sins—is considered the greatest injustice, those who prevent the remembrance and mention of God in the mosque are counted among the most unjust people; they will suffer worldly humiliation and will also face a great punishment in the hereafter.
An analysis of religious teachings indicates that destroying a mosque by any method and preventing believers from being present in that sacred place is a great injustice and an unforgivable sin, and the mosque complains of this destruction to the Lord: Istifta'at, Imam Khomeini (may God have mercy on him), Islamic Publications Office affiliated with the Society of Teachers of the Qom Seminary, Qom, fifth edition, 1422 AH, Vol. 2, p.
Undoubtedly, the concept of verse 114 of Surah Al-Baqarah is a broad and extensive concept and is not limited to a specific time and place; any individual or group that strives in some way to destroy divine mosques or prevents the mention of God's name and His worship there by any means will be subject to the same disgrace and the same great punishment mentioned in the verse.