The nocturnal journey according to Abd Al-Halim Mahmud

The night journey according to Abd Al-Halim Mahmud:

During the night journey and the Ascension, the Messenger of God (SWS) was physically transported from the Sacred Mosque to the Far Mosque (Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa) in Jerusalem on an animal named Al-Buraq, in the company of the Archangel Gabriel. In Jerusalem, he dismounted, hung Al-Buraq on a ring fixed in the door of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and then led a common prayer, with all the previous Prophets praying behind him. After that, Gabriel took him to Heaven on the same animal.

What God granted to the Prophet (SWS), through this journey is a gift that He gave to none other than him. The Prophet (SWS) crossed the heavens one by one and met the other prophets and messengers there. Beyond the spatial meaning, this episode takes on an essential spiritual meaning: if the Envoy of God (SWS) was able to rise constantly from heaven to heaven, each time meeting the prophets and messengers, residing in these skies, continuously he climbed the heavens, surpassing their inhabitants physically, but also spiritually, from Adam, in the first heaven, to Ibrahim (Alayhi Salam) in the seventh heaven He exceeded all this to reach Sidrat al-muntaha (the Lotus of the Limit ), the tree of the end, then to arrive where no angel nor prophet-messenger had ever set foot; "at a distance of two bows or less gore." »