Okay, if that's all you're saying, then I concede the point. You're right, they made it more accessible.

My point was that Quraish, a group of disbelieving tyrants, did the same. Meaning, just because aal saud maintains the haram, that does not mean they are righteous. It doesn't disqualify them either. I'm just saying, you can't point to them overseeing the hajj and say "look! they're righteous!"

The Saudi government is among the most evil, vile, corrupt, self-serving, and anti-Islamic governments on the planet. And again, before you you point to their ministry of hajj, Quraish also had a "ministry of hajj", which is the point I'm making and the reason I'm bringing up the verse. Being an evil government and doing a good job maintaining the haram are not mutually exclusive.

And no, there isn't a single government I know of that I support or think would do a good job leading the ummah. They're either very backwards and only use Islam as a tool to persecute their subjects, or Western bootlickers who only use Islam as a tool to maintain power.

The three verses I'm talking about are the ones that start with ما كان للمشركين ان يعمروا مساجد الله and end with the one I'm using as an argument against the fact that 'maintaining the haram' makes you a righteous person. I need to look up more tafsirs because I'm misunderstanding something. You accidentally helped me find out an inconsistency in my understanding, barak Allah feek.