What Is Isra' Wal Miraj? (Part 2)

27 Rajab, 1436

Continuation from Part 1

The Prophet again said:

God revealed to me what He revealed and made obligatory for me fifty prayers every day and night. I came down to Musa (Prophet Moses (PBUH)) who asked what my Lord had made obligatory for my people, and when I told him He had prescribed fifty prayers every day and night, 

Prophet Musa (Moses (PBUH) ) said:

"Go back to your Lord and ask Him to make things lighter, for your people are not capable of that. I have tested and had experience of the Bani Israil."

Prophet Mohammad (SAW) went back to His Lord and said:

"O my Lord, make things lighter for my people," so He relieved me of five.

When I returned to Musa and told him He had relieved me of five, 

Prophet Musa (moses (PBUH) said:

"Your people are not capable of that, go back to your Lord and ask Him to make things lighter."

I then kept going back and forth between my Lord and Musa till he said:

"There are five prayers every day and night, Muhammad, each being credited as ten, so, that makes fifty times of prayers. He who intends to do good deed and does not do it will have a good deed recorded for him, and if he does it, it will be recorded for him as ten; whereas he who intends to do an evil deed and does not do it will have nothing recorded for him."

I then came down, and when to Musa and told him 

Prophet Musa (SAW) again said:

"Go back to your Lord and ask Him to make things lighter."

Prophet Mohammad (SAW) replied,

I have gone back to my Lord till I am ashamed to face Him." (Hadith)

The Five times obligatory prayers are continue to Part 3

See 

Al-Isra wal-Mi’raj : The Night Journey and The Ascension of Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings be upon him).

Miracle Of Al-Isra & Al-Miraj

What Is Isra' Wal Miraj? (Part 1)

Isra' means a night journey of the Prophet from Masjidil Haram (the Sacred Mosque) at Makkah to Masjidil Aqsaa at Jerusalem,

Miraj means his ascension from Jerusalem to Heaven.

The importance of Isra' wal Miraj, according to the hadith, was that the prayer five times a day was made obligatory to a Muslim during that night. It was narrated as follows:

The God's messenger said:

The roof of my house was cleft when I was in Makkah and Angel Jibriil (AW) descended and opened my breast, after which he washes it with Zamzam water. He then brought a gold dish full of wisdom and faith, and after emptying it into my breast he closed it up.

I was brought Al-Buraq which was an animal white and long. larger than a donkey but smaller than a mule whose hoof touched the ground at a distance equal to the range of its vision.

I mounted it and came to Jerusalem, then tied it to the ring used by the Prophets. 

Then after entering the mosque and praying two rak-ats in it I came out and Angel Jibriil brought me a vessel of wine and a vessel of milk. I chose the milk, and 

Angel Jibiil said: "You have chosen the true religion."

 "We were then taken up to heaven"

In heaven the Prophet Mohammad (SAW) found the prophets Adam, Idris, Yahya, Isa, Yusuf, Musa and Ibrahim and all welcomed him and gave him salutation.

Prophet Mohammad (SAW) again said:

"He then took me to "Sidratul Muntahaa" (the Lote-tree of the Boundary) whose leaves are like elephant's ears and whose fruits are like earthenware vessels. 

When what God commands overshadows it changes, and none of God's creatures can describe it because of its beauty.

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