AL-ISRA’ AND Al-MI‘RAJ 5. The ‘Night Journey’ raised a good deal of stir among the people and the sceptical audience plied Muhammad SAWW with all sorts of questions. He told them that he saw the camels of Makkan merchants to and fro. He also guided them to some of their animals that went astray. He informed them that he had drunk some of their water while they were fast asleep and left the container covered. The disbelievers, however, found it a suitable opportunity to jeer at the Muslims and their creed. They pestered the Prophet (Peace be upon him) with questions as to the description of the Mosque at Jerusalem, where he had never gone before and, to the astonishment of many, the Prophet’s replies furnished the most accurate information about that city. He supplied them with all the news about their caravans and the routes of their camels. However, all this increased in them nothing but flight from the Truth, and they accepted nothing but disbelief. For the true Muslims, however there was nothing unusual about the Night Journey. The All-Mighty Allâh, Who is Powerful enough to have created the heavens and the earth by an act of His Will, is surely Powerful enough to take His Messenger beyond the heavens and show him those signs of His at firsthand which are inaccessible to man otherwise. The disbelievers on their part went to see Abu Bakr on account of this event, and he readily said: “Yes, I do verify it.” It was on this occasion that he earned the title of As-Siddiq (the verifier of the truth). The most eloquent and most concise justification of this ‘Journey’ is expressed in Allâh’s Words: # “... in order that We might show him (Muhammad) of Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, signs, etc.)” [17:1]. The Divine rules as regards the Prophets goes as follows: # “Thus did We show Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth that he be one of those who have Faith with certainty.” [6:75] To Moses, his Lord said: # “That We may show you (some) of Our Greater Signs.” [20:23] In order that: # “He be of those who have Faith with certainty.” The Prophets, after seeing Allâh’s Signs, will establish their Faith on solid certainty too immune to be parted with. They are in fact eligible for this Divine privilege because they are the ones who will bear burdens too heavy for other ordinary people to carry, and in the process of their mission, they will regard all worldly ordeals and agonies too small to care about To be continue till the next post... Riad us Saliheen Chapter 18 Al Isra and Al Miraj
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