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ASCENSION (ME'RAJ) OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD (S)
Prophet
Muhammad (S)’s Ascension began
on Rajab 27 at night from the
house of Umm al Hani in Makka
along with Angel Jibra’il first
to Bait ul Muqaddas and after
visiting various places in the
mosque and reciting prayers at
those places, he went to the
places beyond skies. He
continued his journey till he
reached the place called “Sidratul
Muntaha”. Me’raj has been
mentioned in the Holy Qur’an at
places as under:
“Subhanallazi
Asraa beAbdehi Lailam Minal
Masjid al Haraam Ilal Masjid al
Aqsaal
Lazi Barakna
Houlahu Lenureahu Min Aayatena
Innahu Huwassamiul Baseer”
“Glorified be
He who carried His servant at
night from Masjid al Haraam to
Masjid al
Aqsaa, the
precincts of which We have
blessed so that We may show him
of our Signs.
Verily, He is
the All Hearing and the All
Seeing” Surah al-Isra’ verse 1.
Second time it is mentioned in
Surah al-Najm verses 12 to 18.
The translation is as follows:
Will you then argue with him
about what he saw? He certainly
saw him (Jibra’il) during his
other ascent to the Lote-Tree
(in the seven heavens) near
which is Paradise. When the tree
was covered with a covering,
(Muhammad’s) eyes did not
deceive him, nor did they lead
him to falsehood. He certainly
saw the greatest (signs) of the
existence of his Lord”
From the word
servant in verse 1 of Surah
Is’ra it is clear that Me’raj of
the Prophet(S) was physical as
well as spiritual. The Prophet
did not say that he went rather
the verse says that Allah
carried his servant. The word “Subhan”
denotes that He is free from all
deficiencies.
The
deficiencies of gravity, time
and space etc are for human
beings.
Bartholomew,
a Greek scientist believed that
all physical entities which
exist in this world have two
divisions; elemental and
celestial. By elemental he meant
water, soil, wind and fire.
Celestial bodies means nine
plains like different skins of
an onion which are separated and
cannot be broken. In modern days
when Sputnik in 1957 proved that
man can overcome the problems of
gravity, cosmic rays and
breathing in space. It goes to
prove that the Ascension of
Prophet (S) is not impossible.
Allah is the one who gave
gravity to earth, cosmic rays to
Sun and made different layers to
air, can take away the gravity
from earth, dangers of cosmic
rays of Sun and layers of air
for certain time frame.
When Allah
can bring back the dead, convert
a staff of Musa into snake, keep
alive Younus in the belly of a
whale, He can direct any miracle
so as to facilitate the Asension.
It is only
His intention that counts.
The Prophet
(S) traveled on a heavenly horse
called “Buraq”.On the journey,
the Prophet
(S) met
different groups of people. At
one stage, he met a group of
people whose lips were of large
size like a camel. Their lips
were being cut with a pair of
scissors and they were forced to
eat it. On inquiry, Jibra’il
said these were the people who
used to back bite. Moving
forward, he saw a group of
people in whose throats, fire
was being poured. On inquiry he
was told that those were the
people who used to take property
of orphans unlawfully. They came
across some women who were being
hung by their chests. On
inquiry, he was told that those
women committed indecent acts
and falsely claimed the children
of their husbands while the
children belonged to some one
else.
During the
journey, the Holy Prophet (S)
met some of the Prophets
mentioned in Holy Qur’an.
Abdullah ibne Umer reports that
he heard someone asked the Holy
Prophet (S) in whose voice Allah
addressed him. He replied that
Allah spoke to him in Imam Ali
(AS)’s voice and Allah said “O
Ahmad, I am an entity that is
not like anything else; I know
all the secrets of your heart.
With the exception of Ali ibne
Abi Talib, you have no other
close friend”
During the
Ascension, five times obligatory
prayers were prescribed for
Muslims and also Allah told the
Prophet (S) that He will reward
for any virtues ten times and
any sin will be recorded as one
only.
At Baitul
Mamoor, the Prophet (S) saw the
river al-Kausar and also river
Mercy. He drank from river
al-Kausar and took shower in the
river Mercy.
The journey
continued till he reached the
peak of the journey called “Sidratul
Muntaha” where the space of two
bows (arcs) or even less
remained as stated in Surah al-Najm
verse 9.
In the end a
couplet of Allama Iqbal is
relevant here:
“ Sabaq Mila
hai ye Meraj e Mustafa (S) se
mujhe”
“ Ke alam e
bashariyyat ki zad me hai
gadroon”
I have drawn
a conclusion by the Ascension (Me’raj)
of
The Prophet
Muhammad (S)
That the skies are open to the
mankind |
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