Peace be upon you Doctor, Peace be upon you Doctor, How can you keep an idolworshipper out of your physical house? It is something deeper than that. You must realize that your own human body is a "house" as well as the clothes you wear. We cannot do that and none can do that except when we entrust it with Allah. When you said "EXCEPT" above, does that mean that we CAN keep someone from a PHYSICAL house? Be purified in your heart with the Belief. I am not agaisnt your understanding about giving less importance to the physical aspect of life. I slightly take my view differently to that of yours in that my house is my mind, not the human frame as you suggested. I live with the mind, for the mind and of the mind. You have more than one house, everyting that "shelters" the real "self" is a house.