The Night Journey : Written By Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi

After the initial period of Islam, arrived that time which was appointed by Allah for the supernal visit of our Prophet (P.B.U.H.). So Allah ordered the angels to dizen all the celestial tracks where our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was to pass by during this flight program. "Ridhwan", the Commissioner of the paradise, was ordered to decor the paradise on par with the status and magnitude of the prophet (P.B.U.H.). While Gabriel was ordered to fetch the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) such aerial carrier which may be faster then the thunder and lighter than the moonlight. This was the superb background of his supernal trip when all the Divine Abode echoed with the Divine Inspirations. This Historic incident has been depicted by The Qur'an as follows:

"Glorified be He who carried his servant by night from the Al'Haram Mosque (Makkah) to the Al-Aqsa Mosque (Jerusalem), the neighboring area of which are blessed by us so as to show him our wonders."

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This incident was narrated by our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) himself to his followers. His truth and rectitude were beyond any doubt. There are so many examples for speed and velocity like the super-sonic speed, speed of the light. planets and the vision etc.

The incident of "Meraj" is a Beacon for the scientists. The man before 14 centuries never fancied about the stupendous speed of rockets and space shuttles. We also should think about the speed of human vision. As soon as the eye opened its pupil caught all this spacious world. Really incident "Meraj" is a model, or maxim or philosophy for the scientists and the common populace to conduct the space research. It was also a guideline for the invention of all aerosol-vessels.

The cardinal objective behind the annunciation of our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was call to Islam and propagation for it. Therefore He (P.B.U.H.) has invited all the universal brotherhood to Islam and declared that this existing universe stretching beyond our optical range neither was eternal nor shall remain eternal. 310

Only it is Allah who is everlasting and is unique with all senses of the word. He has partner neither in His entity nor in His attributes nor in His rights and discretion. The propagation and call to Islam unmask this fact that the belief in the life hereafter is the basic part of Islamic ideology and tenuous.