Allahsays in the Quran what means : {Glory be to Him Who made His servant togo on a night from the Sacred Mosque to the remote mosque of which We have
blessed the precincts, so that We may show to him some of Our signs; surely He
is the Hearing, the Seeing.} (Al-Israa' 17:1) Thereis no doubt that Al-Isra (the night journey) followed by Al-Miraj (the heavenly
ascension) was one of the miracles in the life of our Prophet Muhammad (peace
and blessings be upon him). According to the most accepted view, it happened on
the 27th of Rajab, the seventh month of the Hijri calendar, in the tenth year
of Muhammad's prophethood. It isreported in Hadith literature, that the Messenger of Allah was carried from the
Sacred Mosque in Makkah to the "Farthest Mosque" (Al-Masjid al-Aqsa)
in Jerusalem on a creature called Al-Buraq in the company of the archangel
Gabriel (peace be upon him). There he led a congregational prayer of the
prophets of God. ThenGabriel took him to the heavens where he met the prophets Adam, John, Jesus,
Idris, Aaron and Moses (peace be on them all). In the seventh heaven, he met
Abraham (peace be on him). He wasthen brought to the Divine Presence. The details of this encounter are
beautifully detailed in the beginning of surat
An-Najm (52). Prayer:God-given Gift Duringthis time, Allah ordered for his nation fifty daily Prayers. But on the
Prophet's return, he was told by Prophet Moses (peace be on him) that his
followers could not perform fifty Prayers. Thus, he went back and eventually it
was reduced to five daily Prayers. After this, the Prophet (peace and blessings
be upon him) returned to Makkah on the same night itself. Therefore,Muslims should be thankful to Allah for this gift. They should take care of it
and never neglect it. It is the thing that allows the Muslim to communicate
with the creator five times as day. Timeand Space Are Not Bound for Allah Onemajor lesson of that miraculous event, was that space and time which are bound
by laws of nature for humans, are not so bound for Allah. On that night prophet
Muhammad bridged time and space and this world, traveling to the heavens by
Allah's will. Ibelieve that for those who study philosophy the abstract as well as the
symbolic implications of the event might be very stimulating indeed. The gap
between the reality of this life and that of the life to come simply
diminished. This is illustrated by the Prophet's encounter with other prophets
who were long since dead as far as we normally think of it but who, in reality,
live as beings in a different form somewhere else. Theimplications of the night journey cannot be overstated. The miraculous nature
of the Prophet's journey established his divine-stated legitimacy as the seal
of all prophets. Allah brought him to Him to show us his true worth in the
sight of Allah. Allreligious traditions share the concept of miracles, that is, something that
defies logic, nature, or the established constitution and course of things. Wewill limit our discussion to legitimate miracles from Allah, which are by
definition the only true miracles. When the forces of disbelief are strong,
typically the prophetic miracles that oppose them are stronger. ProphetMoses was given several miracles, which included his staff that turned into a
massive snake and culminated in his parting of the Red Sea,
as a divine response to the extreme infidelity of Pharaoh. Similarly,Prophet Jesus was given even the power to raise the dead, in order to establish
his legitimacy before the Jews who would ultimately condemn him to death for
blasphemy. Nevertheless, his miracles were undeniable by their nature, and it
was only the obstinacy and arrogance of the people to whom he was sent that
enabled them to deny him. Muhammad'snight journey was obviously not easy for the pagan Makkans to believe.
Nevertheless, the Prophet proved it logically by describing the approaching
caravans that he overtook on his miraculous return. Thus,this particular prophetic miracle not only established the Prophet's eminence
for Muslims as discussed above, but it also helped to prove his prophethood to
the non-believers of his time. Celebratingthe Event As faras the Muslims are concerned, there is no particular celebration, fast or
prayer to commemorate Al-Isra and Al-Miraj. But in some places, the Muslims
themselves have started to have commemorative functions, where the story of the
night journey is told in poetry or lectures. Whilethe Prophet himself did not establish these practices, there are scholars who
maintain that gatherings meant to remind the Muslims of the importance of
Al-Miraj in the history of Islam, or to remind us of the importance of love for
the Prophet and the significance of the city of Jerusalem, are permissible.
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