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@ Rebuttal to the Night Journey being a dream - 43
There are some people, who lived many centuries after the Ascent and Night Journey took place, who claim the event was a dream. To support their opinion they quote the verse, "We did not make the vision (ru'yah) which We showed to you…. except to be a trial for people" (17:60). Accordingly, they named the Night Journey and Ascent as being a vision, while the Isra verse negates such, because He said, "Exalted is He who carried His worshiper (Prophet Muhammad) to travel in the night from the Sacred Mosque to the Furthest Mosque which We have blessed around it so that We might show him some of Our signs. He is the Hearer, the Seer." (17:1)" And no one can say that the Night Journey was while he was sleeping. Also, the word "trial" in (17:60) proves that it is the sighting of an eye because a vision has no trial in it, and no one will deny a vision regardless of how far its distance!
@ Did the Prophet see his Lord? – 44
The report of Abbas' son is in reference to the Paradise status of the Prophet, as the Prophet sees Allah in Paradise with the eyes of Paradise, and remember, he had already entered Paradise on the Night of Ascent. Lady Ayesha, on the other hand, was referring to the opposite, which is that of a physical appearance of Allah in the same way the unbelievers of Mecca see their idols or the location of their idols.
Allah said, "so (Allah) revealed to His worshiper that which He revealed". Allah revealed to the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, His Mighty, Unseen Kingdom where he saw and witnessed the wonders of the angelic realm that can neither be expressed in words nor yet is it possible for human intellect to endure seeing or hearing, not even in its minutest atom. One must realize that the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, was given powers far in excess of our own. For example, he was given the strength and power to receive the intensity of the Revelation, the witnessing of the communing of the angelic hosts, the Night Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem when he was carried by Burack at the speed of light and thereafter his ascent through the heavens to the furthest limit. Regarding his everyday affairs he told his Companions that Allah feeds him and gives him to eat and drink, and that although his eyes slept his heart was always awake, all of which is beyond our reach. This exceptional blessing from Allah is far beyond our capacity to understand, and if one were to attempt such understanding then one's mind would become paralyzed. This fact is important to understand before progressing to the hadiths of Lady Ayesha and Abbas' son relating to the seeing of his Lord.
@ The proximity of the Prophet and
There are some people, who lived many centuries after the Ascent and Night Journey took place, who claim the event was a dream. To support their opinion they quote the verse, "We did not make the vision (ru'yah) which We showed to you…. except to be a trial for people" (17:60). Accordingly, they named the Night Journey and Ascent as being a vision, while the Isra verse negates such, because He said, "Exalted is He who carried His worshiper (Prophet Muhammad) to travel in the night from the Sacred Mosque to the Furthest Mosque which We have blessed around it so that We might show him some of Our signs. He is the Hearer, the Seer." (17:1)" And no one can say that the Night Journey was while he was sleeping. Also, the word "trial" in (17:60) proves that it is the sighting of an eye because a vision has no trial in it, and no one will deny a vision regardless of how far its distance!
@ Did the Prophet see his Lord? – 44
The report of Abbas' son is in reference to the Paradise status of the Prophet, as the Prophet sees Allah in Paradise with the eyes of Paradise, and remember, he had already entered Paradise on the Night of Ascent. Lady Ayesha, on the other hand, was referring to the opposite, which is that of a physical appearance of Allah in the same way the unbelievers of Mecca see their idols or the location of their idols.
Allah said, "so (Allah) revealed to His worshiper that which He revealed". Allah revealed to the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, His Mighty, Unseen Kingdom where he saw and witnessed the wonders of the angelic realm that can neither be expressed in words nor yet is it possible for human intellect to endure seeing or hearing, not even in its minutest atom. One must realize that the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, was given powers far in excess of our own. For example, he was given the strength and power to receive the intensity of the Revelation, the witnessing of the communing of the angelic hosts, the Night Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem when he was carried by Burack at the speed of light and thereafter his ascent through the heavens to the furthest limit. Regarding his everyday affairs he told his Companions that Allah feeds him and gives him to eat and drink, and that although his eyes slept his heart was always awake, all of which is beyond our reach. This exceptional blessing from Allah is far beyond our capacity to understand, and if one were to attempt such understanding then one's mind would become paralyzed. This fact is important to understand before progressing to the hadiths of Lady Ayesha and Abbas' son relating to the seeing of his Lord.
@ The proximity of the Prophet and