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There is no disagreement among scholars that, the verse, “When We said to you, 'Indeed, your Lord encompasses all people.' We did not make the vision which We showed to you, and the tree cursed in the Koran except to be a trial for people, and We frighten them, but it only increases them in great insolence. (17:60) was revealed with regard to the decision taken by Prophet Muhammad at Hudaybiyah, and relates to the disappointed, would-be pilgrims.
Those people who claim the Night Journey to be simply a vision rather than an event quote this verse to support their claim yet at the same time choose to overlook the first verses of the same chapter, which clearly speak of the Night Journey. Allah says, "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). These mistaken people, also choose to ignore the fact that Abu Bakr, the first Caliph accepted the reality immediately, and never interpreted it otherwise.
The Arabic word "ru'yah" means vision. Added to this rebuttal is the statement found in the opening verse of the same chapter distinctly named "The Night Journey". In that verse Allah says, "Exalted is He who carried His worshiper to travel in the night" (17:1). This statement disproves the claim of the deniers, because one cannot say about someone who is asleep that he traveled on a journey.
In conclusion, had the event been just a dream, the unbelievers would never have raised an objection to it as anything can happen in a dream. Also, if it had not been a reality then it would negate a major essential principal of Islam namely the obligation of the prayer. It would also negate the meeting and leading of the prophets in prayer, and Gabriel coming to take the Prophet up using Burak which was the same mount used to carry prophets before him.
Did the Prophet see his Lord?
(Shaykh Ahmad Darwish commented: The under mentioned 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. On the other hand Lady Ayesha’s report was referring to the opposite, which is that of a physical appearance like the unbelievers of Mecca see their idols or their location.
Allah said, "so (Allah) revealed to His worshiper that which He revealed". Allah revealed to the Prophet 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 was given
Those people who claim the Night Journey to be simply a vision rather than an event quote this verse to support their claim yet at the same time choose to overlook the first verses of the same chapter, which clearly speak of the Night Journey. Allah says, "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). These mistaken people, also choose to ignore the fact that Abu Bakr, the first Caliph accepted the reality immediately, and never interpreted it otherwise.
The Arabic word "ru'yah" means vision. Added to this rebuttal is the statement found in the opening verse of the same chapter distinctly named "The Night Journey". In that verse Allah says, "Exalted is He who carried His worshiper to travel in the night" (17:1). This statement disproves the claim of the deniers, because one cannot say about someone who is asleep that he traveled on a journey.
In conclusion, had the event been just a dream, the unbelievers would never have raised an objection to it as anything can happen in a dream. Also, if it had not been a reality then it would negate a major essential principal of Islam namely the obligation of the prayer. It would also negate the meeting and leading of the prophets in prayer, and Gabriel coming to take the Prophet up using Burak which was the same mount used to carry prophets before him.
Did the Prophet see his Lord?
(Shaykh Ahmad Darwish commented: The under mentioned 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. On the other hand Lady Ayesha’s report was referring to the opposite, which is that of a physical appearance like the unbelievers of Mecca see their idols or their location.
Allah said, "so (Allah) revealed to His worshiper that which He revealed". Allah revealed to the Prophet 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 was given