8-Belief and Islam - Hakikat Kitabevi

elieve in the Mi’râj in this manner. [1] How the Mi’râj happened
is written in detail in many valuable books, particularly in Shifâ’i
sherîf. [2] He went with Jabrâ’îl (’alaihi’s-salâm) from Mekka to
Sidrat al-muntahâ, a tree in the sixth and seventh heavens. No
knowledge, no ascent could go further than there. In Sidra,
Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm) saw Jabrâ’îl (’alaihi ’s-salâm) in his
own shape with his six hundred wings. Jabrâ’îl (’alaihi ’s-salâm)
remained in Sidra. From Mekka to Jerusalem, or to the seventh
heaven, Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was taken on Burâq,
which was a white, very fast, sexless and unworldly animal of
Paradise and which is smaller than a mule and bigger than an
ass. It stepped beyond eyeshot. At the Aqsâ Mosque,
Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm) became the imâm for prophets in
the night or morning prayer. Prophets’ souls were present there
in their own human figures. From Jerusalem up to the seventh
heaven, he was made to ascend in a moment with an unknown
ladder named Mi’râj. On the way, angels lined up on the right
and on the left, praised and lauded him. At each heaven,
Jabrâ’îl (’alaihi ’s-salâm) announced the good news of
Rasûlullah’s (’alaihi ’s-salâm) arrival. In each heaven he saw a
prophet and greeted him. In Sidra, he saw many astonishing
things, the blessings of Paradise and the tortures of Hell. He
looked at none of the blessings of Paradies out of the desire for
and the pleasure of seeing Allâhu ta’âlâ’s Jamâl. Beyond Sidra,
he went ahead alone, among nûrs (lights). He heard the sounds
of the angels’ pens. He went through seventy thousand
curtains. The distance between two curtains was like a way of
five hundred years. After this, on a bed named Rafraf, which
was brighter than the sun, he went through the Kursî and
reached the ’Arsh. He went out of the ’Arsh, out of the worlds of
time, space and matter. He reached the stage to hear Allâhu
ta’âlâ’s Speech.
He saw Allâhu ta’âlâ in a manner that cannot be understood
or explained, like Allâhu ta’âlâ will be seen in the next world
without time and space. He spoke with Allâhu ta’âlâ without
[1] The Ismâ’îlî heretics and the enemies of faith disguised as Islamic
scholars try to deceive the youth by saying and writing that the Mi’râj
was not a bodily ascent but a spiritual state (hâl). We should not buy
such corrupt books; we should not be decieved by them.
[2] Qâdî ’Iyâd al-Mâlikî, author of Shifâ’, passed away in Morocco in 544
A.H. (1150).
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