Qur'an (the greatest miracle), his excellent moral character, and his
actions and sayings. He proclaimed the Qur'an as a guide to the right
path and reached all of his people, from the least civilized Bedouins
to highly civilized people. This was also one of Allah's miracles. He
communicated the morality of Islam most effectively. Through him,
people who used to bury their daughters alive turned into merciful and
compassionate human beings, and people who used to worship idols made
with their own hands came to believe in the oneness of Allah.
Many of these miracles are related in the Qur'an and the hadiths.
Among them the following:
His ascension into heavens (Mi`raj)
Sidrat al-Muntaha: The border at which the knowledge of created things
ends and which it cannot pass.
The Qubbat al-Sakhra (Dome of the Rock), built on the Hajar Muallaq stone
The Prophet Muhammad's (saas) ascension is one of the greatest
miracles. Surat al-Isra' and Surat al-Najm relate his miraculous night
journey to the Masjid al-Aqsa and his ascension to the "lote tree of
the utmost boundary" (sidrat al-muntaha).
In Arabic, isra' means "night journey" or "night walk." In the first
verse of Surat al-Isra', Almighty Allah tells us of our dear Prophet's
miraculous journey:
Glory be to Him Who took His servant on a journey by night from the
Masjid al-Haram to the Masjid al-Aqsa, whose surroundings We have
blessed, in order to show him some of Our Signs. He is the
All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. (Surat al-Isra': 1)
The word aqsa means "far" or "farthest." The Masjid al-Haram is
located in Mecca; the Masjid al-Aqsa is located in Jerusalem. The
distance between them is about 1,235 kilometres (767 miles). Our
Prophet (saas) was transported from Mecca to Jerusalem. The great
Islamic scholar Ibn Kathir says that at least twenty-five Companions
heard the story from our Prophet (saas) but that this number could
have been as high as forty-five. The accounts reported by Anas ibn
Malik, Abu Hurayrah, Abu Sa`id al-Khudri, Malik ibn Sa'sa, Abu Zarr
al-Ghaffari, Abdullah ibn Abbas, Abdullah ibn Mas`ud, and Umm Hani are
considered the most reliable. According to them, while our Prophet
(saas) was sleeping in his niece's (Umm Hani Abi Talib) house, Gabriel
appeared to him, put him on a horse called Buraq, and took him to the
Masjid al-Aqsa, where he ascended. The hadiths contain a great deal of
detailed information about what he saw during this event, such as his
conversations with earlier prophets and his glimpses of Paradise and
Hell.
The Hajar Muallaq: The sacred stone upon which our Prophet (saas)
stepped when he ascended to Mi'raj.
According to Islamic texts, the Meccan unbelievers doubted this
miracle because of their weak intellects and so tried to find out if
his words were true. Due to this unseemly attitude, the Lord
humiliated them and turned their ridicule against them:
They asked: "Will you describe the Masjid al-Aqsa to us?" Some of them
had been there and seen it. The Prophet (saas) related: "I began
describing the mosque. In describing some places, I fell into doubt.
At this, the mosque was brought and placed in front of the house of
'Iqal or 'Aqil. I looked at it and began describing it." After the
Prophet's address they exclaimed: "As for the description, by Allah,
he was correct!" 22
Above: Our Prophet's (saas) miraculous journey was from the al-Haram
al-Sharif in Mecca to the Masjid al-Aqsa in Jerusalem
He also said:
"I remember being in al-Hijr, and the Qurayshis were asking me about
my Night Journey. They asked me things about Bayt al-Maqdis of which I
was not sure ... Then Allah raised it up for me to see, and there was
nothing they asked me about that I could not tell them."23
Before this event, the Prophet Muhammad (saas) had never gone to the
Masjid al-Aqsa, so it was a great miracle and mercy from Allah that he
could answer all of these questions. This miracle increased the
believers' enthusiasm and eagerness and strengthened their bond with
our Prophet (saas); some of the unbelievers, however, persisted in
their rebellion. They went to Abu Bakr and, after making groundless
accusations about our Prophet (saas), asked if he believed this story
and if he would continue to believe in our Prophet (saas). He replied:
"If he said it, then I believe him, yes." For his loyalty, our Prophet
(saas) gave him the title al-Siddiq (the Faithful).
The hadiths also tell us that our Prophet (saas) gave them one more
miraculous sign that they could not deny:
They asked him: "What is your proof?" The Prophet replied: "I
encountered a caravan belonging to Quraysh. It was at such-and-such a
place. The caravan was frightened by us and changed course. There was
a black and a white sack on one camel in the caravan; that particular
camel cried out and then collapsed." When the caravan returned, they
asked what had happened and were told of the events, just as the
Prophet (saas) had said. 24
External view of the Qubbat al-Sakhra (Dome of the Rock).
Both his description of the Masjid al-Aqsa and of the caravan were
great miracles of Allah's mercy. Allah informs us in the Qur'an of
some of the verses about his ascent to the "lote tree of the final
limit":
He saw him again another time by the Lote-tree of the Final Limit,
beside which is the Garden of Refuge, when that which covered the
Lote-tree covered it. His eye did not waver, nor did he look away. He
saw some of the Greatest Signs of his Lord. (Surat al-Najm: 13-18)
The land on which the Qubbat al-Sakhra and the Masjid al-Aqsa stand is
sacred to all Muslims
This great miracle is an important proof from the Lord to the
unbelievers. Every single miracle that the Lord allowed our Prophet
(saas) to perform was created by Allah's will; none of them depended
upon a cause. And, they all strengthened the believers' faith.-
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