"The great trial we are confronted with in this physical life of ours is the question of successful transition into the next higher stage and of the achievement of a successful eternal life there. To that stage, only our non-material conscious (spiritual) self is destined to be transferred.
The physical organism, as a routine, returns to dust after its death in current stage of life. The spiritual elevation to that eternal stage would depend exclusively on virtuous deeds which would spring up from a noble human character that we need to build. Worship, prayers, rituals and show off in the human community do not help in building a lofty human character and conduct. For this purpose, in His sacred Book, our Creator Has not prescribed worships and prayer rituals. On the contrary, He has provided precious ethics and values (Nusuk – نسک) that elevate and ennoble our self. And for the same purpose, within our conscious selfs our Lord and Creator Has inherently bestowed the divine attributes, whose manifestation helps build our character and conduct. On the other side is our material animal organism whose instinctive pressures not only ensure the continuity of our material life, but, it is that Devil within us that, if allowed to dominate the values of our conscious self, compels us to deviate from the track of our genuine destination. These two elements form the two opposing forces of that clash of good and evil which continues in human life. We need to fulfill the urges of our animal organism strictly under the light of our conscious values, and while keeping these urges within certain limitations, not to allow them to overcome our conscious values. Unbridled urges of our animal organism may never be let loose if we don’t want to hamper our way towards building an ideal character and conduct. It is this character and conduct alone, on whose strength we would be able to achieve our destination in the next higher stage of life. Hence, this is our Ka’bah or “Qiblah” (کعبہ / قبلہ).
So, Our first duty toward God and our fellow humans is not to visit Makkah and perform the ritual of Hajj; Our Ka’bah and Qiblah is our duty of self-development. Every faculty with which the Creator has endowed us with should be cultivated to the highest degree of perfection, that we may be able to do the greatest amount of good of which we are capable."