First: the possible reasons for the blessed journey
1 - Before the event of the Night Journey and Mi’raj, calamities befell the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, in addition to the hardship and torment of the infidels he was facing, and they responded to his call and caused harm to him and to those who followed him among the people of Mecca in the Arabian Peninsula.
2 - He lost a supporter and supporter for him, his uncle Abu Talib, and he also lost a very dear person to him, namely his wife Khadija, who was his support and help in enduring difficulties and hardships in order to convey his lofty calling, they both died within days before the Isra and Miraj event, and so this year was called the “Year of Sorrow.” Hence the blessings of God upon His servant and Messenger Muhammad, with this great miracle, to sweeten his mind and relieve his sorrows and pain of him.
3 - To witness the wonders of creatures and strange sights that are hidden from the hearts and minds.
4 - Among what was stated on the lips of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was that when he arrived in Jerusalem, all the prophets and messengers gathered around him, lined up and presented him to the leadership, and he led them in prayer... This is considered a celebration of the legacy of prophecy that was passed on to the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers, He is Muhammad bin Abdullah, and thus he passed from the descendants of Ishaq to the descendants of Ismail Abu Al-Arab ( The father of Arab) this is also clear evidence of the universality of the Islamic message, and the Islam is the comprehensive religion that contains all previous divine laws and beliefs, and therefore it is the seal of the messages that God has sent down to humanity to guide them.
5 - Since the Isra’ - and also the Mi’raj - were a violation of the natural conditions that people were accustomed to, they used to go from Mecca to the Levant in a month and return in a month, but - that is: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, went and returned and was taken up to the highest heavens, and all of this and that in less than two-thirds of one night... So this was an amazing thing, meaning that it was a test for all people, especially those who believed in the new message. The strong in faith believed it, the weak in faith lied, and some of them abandoned their Islam. Thus, the ranks of Muslims are clean, the Muslims whom God prepares for migration will be pious, pure, and strong people, with strong resolve and a solid will. Because immigration requires them to have these qualities.
6 - The ascension was from Jerusalem and not from Mecca, and it had connotations, one of which was the command to spread Islam and expand its framework, because it is the final, comprehensive, and all-encompassing religion, what God has approved for all people, regardless of their races, colors, peoples, and languages. It also contains an implicit command to reject disagreement among Muslims, without a command to unite them and combine their interests.
8 - When you create a craft or product and want to preserve your right to invent it, you apply for a patent so that no one takes your effort and attributes it to themselves, how do you prove to the Patent Authority that it is an invention and that you brought something new that no one had brought before you? To come up with something like a miracle, and it is a miraculous thing when people cannot come up with something like it in the same circumstances that you lived in, right? God Almighty created the universe, created people, created the prophets, and made them human beings, not angels, so how can people believe them when they grew up with them and lived with them until they reached forty years of age? then I call upon prophecy. Who would believe them? Even if their circumstances are better than everyone else (morals and behavior), there must be something extraordinary.
Second: The description of the lightning with which the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, ascended to heaven
After the two journeys were completed, and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, returned to his homeland and his home in Mecca, he told the people what had happened, and among what he said was: “Burq” He came to him and ordered him to ride him. This Buraq was the means that transported him on his earthly journey from Mecca to Jerusalem. Experts in the Arabic language reported that Al-Buraq: It is an animal smaller than a mule and larger than a donkey. Some commentators on the hadiths of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: Buraq is derived from brīq ( sparkling) and its color is white, Or it is from “Al-Buraq”, and it is called that because of its intense brilliance, clarity, sparkling or glow.
Third: Does the miracle occur in the spirit, the body, or both?
Someone might say: The journey of the Isra (or more importantly: the journey of the Ascension) occurred to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, in a dream, that is, a dream-like vision, meaning of his soul and not his body, we say to this one who said: The earthly journey, as well as the upper journey, occurred together in the spirit and the body together, and the overwhelming evidence for that is many,
The closest to us are the words of the Qur’an that we mentioned previously. God did not say: (Glory be to Him who took the soul of His servant) ascension from earth to heaven, but rather He said: “Glory be to Him who took ascension from earth to heaven His servant,” meaning: soul and body, thus, the human being (the slave) is both the soul and the body.
Before starting the scientific explanation of the journey, the value of the miracle must be noted
Now... the West has advanced very advanced technology and said that they created God in a machine, so how can they believe something as strange as a space journey in an era in which most of its people do not read or write, not the space age as we live in? the question here is: Was the Qur’an, including Surah Al-Najm, revealed for the end of time or for the era in which it was revealed? Our answer, as Muslims of all ages and ages, is: Therefore, minds must be perplexed in the era of knowledge, just as they were perplexed in the era of illiteracy. Rather, more and more, then someone will come and explain the matter scientifically and logically, so we will be like our master Abraham, and God Almighty says to him:
( قَالَ أَوَلَمْ تُؤْمِن ۖ قَالَ بَلَىٰ وَلَٰكِن ليَطْمَئِنَّ قَلْبِي)
(He said, “Do you not believe?” He said, “Yes, but so that my heart may be at ease.”)
Fourth: The Journey of the Night Journey
Allah says
سُبۡحَٰنَ ٱلَّذِيٓ أَسۡرَىٰ بِعَبۡدِهِۦ لَيۡلٗا مِّنَ ٱلۡمَسۡجِدِ ٱلۡحَرَامِ إِلَى ٱلۡمَسۡجِدِ ٱلۡأَقۡصَا ٱلَّذِي بَٰرَكۡنَا حوۡلَهُۥ لِنُرِيَهُۥ مِنۡ ءَايَٰتِنَآۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلۡبَصِيرُ (1)
Glory be to Him who ascended to heaven through His servant by night from the Sacred Mosque to the ِAl - Aqsa Mosque which we blessed around it, that We may show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing (1)
Glory be to God: a word of exaltation and sanctification, or wonder, and it cannot be said except to God Almighty. Glory be to God: He is above all evil.
What do I mean by linguistic meaning?
The verse begins with a word that is said when exclaiming, which is the opening of the surah. You are aware that the opening of the speech in any speech that you say in front of a crowd of people must have several characteristics, the most important of which are: It must be attractive and related to the purpose of the word you will say, and this is common in the world of people, We said previously that every human being has a share in his name. Surahs also have a share in their name. In fact, many or most surahs have their main goal in their name, and here is Surah Al-Isra, and it talks about something that the earlier ones marvel at and the later ones doubt, so the surah begins with the content of the wonders it contains..., He ascended with his servant Muhammad - may God bless him and grant him peace from the Sacred Mosque (his place of residence), may God bless it, to Al-Aqsa Mosque (the second most honorable place to which travelers are drawn - may God free him from his captivity -) and the reason is shown to him by His signs (the miraculous signs of God). Indeed, He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. Why? Perhaps because this timing came after the year of grief for the Messenger of God, (After the death of Khadija, the inner protective shield of the Messenger of God + his uncle Abu Talib, the outer protective shield of the Messenger of God), So God was the Hearer of the heart of the Messenger of God, Seeing his condition, and God knows what He wants from His servants in this verse.
But we have to pause with (to show him of Our signs)
If this miracle happened these days, it would be true due to the abundance and horror of the scientific technology developed. They uploaded the minds to the computer and traveled them through the clouds, then they released a laser beam to meet the mind there and travel between the planets... Wait a minute: I do not know exactly whether this really happened or not yet, or is it part of their road map, that is, does God Almighty know (He actually knows, Glory be to Him) that the messengers came to a nation that will one day be dominated by knowledge, so miraculous things must happen that are not specific to a specific time? As a miracle higher than magic, like the miracle of Moses - peace be upon him - or a miracle that the West is almost trying to comprehend and imitate, the miracle of reviving the dead of our Master Jesus - peace be upon him - God knows exactly what He wants with the word (His signs).
(From the Sacred House to Al-Aqsa Mosque) The journey could take weeks or months with a camel, and the Messenger of God took them in less than one night because the night begins With the Maghrib call to prayer and ends at dawn, the round-trip journey from heaven to earth took this time.
Now the scientific explanation Interpretation by Professor Dr. Karim Ghoneim..
.but in a simplified way Professor at the Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University - Secretary of the Society for Scientific Miracles of the Qur’an and Sunnah. We must agree on several agreements
1 - The speed of light is about 300,000 km/s
2 - Angels are created from light - Angel Gabriel, the archangel, is therefore the strongest and fastest of them
3 - The speed of light in a vacuum or air is the highest speed known to date, and modern science does not deny the existence of a speed greater than the speed of light in a vacuum, and if it has not been achieved yet, such that you can revolve around the Earth seven and a half revolutions in one second, then what about us if it is not a revolution but rather a straight line to the top? (Just imagine) The speed is higher than the rotation.
How can we measure something so amazingly fast?
Einstein introduced space and time into his theory of special relativity in 1905 AD and declared: “We do not have to talk about time without space, nor is there space without time. As long as everything moves, it must carry its time with it, and the faster something moves, the less its time relative to what is around it, times associated with other movements are slower than it. We take, for example, the movement of cats and the movement of deer. If the cat moves, then time travels with it at a certain speed, and it has time to move on with it. As for the deer, because it is one of the fastest animals, time decreases with it.
According to Einstein's theory
If we imagine a rocket very close to the speed of light (such as the angel: Gabriel in this case), it will make a journey that will take fifty thousand years
(According to Earth Hour)
If you think about visiting the end of the universe, you will return to the Earth to find other generations and the great changes that have occurred on this planet, , which would have passed thousands, millions or billions of years according to the calculations of the inhabitants of the Earth who did not make this amazing journey with you and according to the theory of relativity as well, If there is an object moving at a speed greater than the speed of light, then distances lie in front of it and time in its travels erases these distances.
Fifth: The Ascension Journey
Allah says
{ وَالنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَى (1) مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَى(2) وَمَا يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى (3) إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّاوَحْيٌ يُوحَى (4) عَلَّمَهُ شَدِيدُ الْقُوَى (5) ذُو مِرَّةٍ فَاسْتَوَى (6) وَهُوَ بِالْأُفُقِ الْأَعْلَى (7) ثُمَّ دَنَا فَتَدَلَّى (8) فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِأَوْ أَدْنَى (9) فَأَوْحَى إِلَى عَبْدِهِ مَا أَوْحَى (10) مَاكَذَبَ الْفُؤَادُ مَا رَأَى (11) أَفَتُمَارُونَهُ عَلَى مَا يَرَى (12) وَلَقَدْرَآهُ نَزْلَةً أُخْرَى (13) عِنْدَ سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى (14) عِنْدَهَا جَنَّةُ الْمَأْوَى(15) إِذْ يَغْشَى السِّدْرَةَ مَا يَغْشَى (16) مَا زَاغَ الْبَصَرُ وَمَا طَغَى (17) لَقَدْ رَأَى مِنْ آيَاتِ رَبِّهِ الْكُبْرَى } (سورة النجم 1 – 18).
{And by the star, when it descends (1) your companion has not gone astray or He went too far in his seduction (2) And he does not speak out of desire (3) Indeed, it is revelation revealed (4) He taught him very strong (5) of great strength, he became steadfast (6) He is at the highest horizon (7) Then He approaches and descended (8) It was just around the corner or lower (9) So He revealed to His servant what He revealed (10) The heart does not deny what it saw (11) Do you argued him based on what he sees? (12) And he saw it another coming down ( 13 ) At Sidra Al-Muntaha (14) With it is the Garden of Refuge (15) When He covers the Sidr tree with what it covers (16) the sight never strays, nor does it transgress (17) He has certainly seen of the greatest signs of his Lord” (Surat An-Najm 1-18).
This is how Surat Al-Najm begins.
Speaking about the ascension of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, that is, the great miracle that happened to the Messenger of God in honor of him, in which he saw the wonders of God’s creation and the strangeness of His creation in His great kingdom that is unlimited, the wisdom of God required that the first words of the Surah be a heavenly body, that is, “the star,” and it is one of the cosmic signs that God created, and God Almighty He swears by the fall of the star, its disappearance, its explosion, or its burning. It is an oath of something great if people think about it and the astronomers understand that this thing is truly great.
The second verse came
To confirm to the people of Mecca at the time the Qur’an was revealed to them that the Messenger of God (i.e., the one sent among them) did not go transgress, did not deviate, and did not stray, because he is a messenger chosen by God Almighty, He must speak the truth, tell the truth, tell what he saw, narrate what he heard, and convey what he was commanded to convey... How can he go astray, and how can he slip, when he is trustworthy in the Qur’an - the Book of God - to all people?
It is the revelation that God gives to His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace Where Gabriel - the archangels - used to bring it to him, and read it to him, and this Gabriel is of great strength, and he was “stabilized,” that is: he appeared in his true image of the Messenger of God, Muhammad bin Abdullah, may God bless him and grant him peace, on the “higher horizon,” so they approached and almost that they touched, but Gabriel separated from the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, at a place beyond which angels do not pass, And he said to him: If I advance, I will be burned, and if you advance - you, O Muhammad, nothing will happen to you - and this is strange talk, because the angel Gabriel - peace be upon him - is the chief of the angels, and yet he has limits that he is allowed to meet, and if he crosses them, he is burned. Is this scientific talk? Yes, the astronomers know that there are places in the sky that cannot be reached unless they are kidnapped in the heaven- so to speak - like a black hole for example - so they cannot approach. Here in this place the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - arrived, . after crossing this place, God Almighty appeared to His Messenger Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, with blessings, manifestations, and outpourings, and revealed to him a direct revelation. The prayer known to us was what God revealed, and God Almighty swore that what His Messenger narrated would be after his return from this trip, he told the truth and honesty and not a lie, because he had never lied in his entire life. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, saw the great signs of God’s greatness and absolute power.
The Ascension Journey (scientifically)
What do you know about the physical particles of Haguesbousen? They are elementary particles that are thought to be responsible for matter gaining its mass
What does this mean?
Angel Gabriel is an angel, that is, a creature of light, and light is light, and light is energy, not matter. Muhammad - may God bless him and grant him peace - is human and created from clay, and clay is a substance, not an energy, SO, When he took our master Gabriel - our master Muhammad - may God bless him and grant him peace and ascended him to heaven, the scientific majority transformed him from matter into energy... and do not say that this is science fiction, why? Because they are now in the Martian colonies, they are changing the physiology of the human body who wants to live on Mars, such as enlarging his eyes, exposing his forehead, making his body turn orange, or even inhaling carbon dioxide - this is not a joke - this is a reality now, not 1000 years from now, but in 2030 at the latest.
The question here Is it possible to change the body's physiology?
Is this reasonable? The truth is yes, and God Almighty mentioned this phenomenon in His Mighty Book at the end of time
Allah says
( يوْمَ يَكُونُ النَّاسُ كالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ (4) وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنفُوشِ (5)
(On the Day when people will be like spread out butterflies (4) and the mountains will be like spread fluff (5)
The verses tell us that on the Day of Resurrection people will be like a butterflies spread everywhere in an unorganized manner (the nature of the butterflies ). This means that the person will be very light like a butterflies and the mountains are like dyed wool flying in the air, and scientists have told us that the end of the universe is not due to a cosmic explosion or anything else but due to the change of matter (the clay from which we were created) into energy and therefore it has no weight, and therefore the end of the universe is due to the change of matter, so the Creator of the universe is able to to change the material from which Muhammad - may God bless him and grant him peace - was created from clay to light (for a short time) in order to ascend between the heavens and beyond, where Gabriel - peace be upon him - was unable to reach the Sidra al Muntaha.
In Conclusion
So: Why do you imagine, look, and learn from astronomers things that are stranger than imagination, such as (farming in the clouds - or not getting close to a black hole, or ascending into the sky with a different physiology than on Earth?) “the spacecraft or the astronauts’ suit” or anything else, and do not accept that God - the Almighty - the Creator of the universe has been doing these things for approximately 1445 years, So that the journey of Isra and Mi’raj is the miracle of all time... God is Most High and Most Knowing, and He guides us to the right path.