The Miracle of the Night of Isrā’ and Mi‘rāj

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.

In two days insha’Allah it will be the Night of Isrā’ and Mi‘rāj. It is one of the big miracles of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. Clever people with minds accept this miracle but the mindless and foolish ones do not. However, our Holy Prophet ﷺ is the source of all knowledge. Allah ﷻ says, Bismillahirrahman Al Rahim, ‘ ’, ‘Nor does he

speak out of desire.’ (Qur’ān 53:03). He doesn’t speak in vain. Every step, every way, everything he shows is useful for people; it opens up horizons for people and increases their knowledge. People of the past were astonished at how he could go and come back in such a short time. Well for people of the past, it could be that they were [astonished]; they have an excuse to be astonished because there was no knowledge or such. But it is strange for people of today to be astonished since those who read a little bit about all these theories, their source is again our Holy Prophet ﷺ.

For there to be time within time, timelessness and spacelessness are all within the knowledge of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. Those who are meant to know this and it’s their kismet, even if they are nonbelievers, Allah ﷻ can give them an iota of that knowledge and then people are amazed by it. Professors and scholars pay attention and look at the things said by those people who deal with this knowledge, and take big lessons from them. But there are those foolish Muslims who do not accept this miracle and do not accept that our Holy Prophet ﷺ went there spiritually and physically, they say that it happened in a dream. It can happen to anybody in a dream, but where would the miracle be then? Such things that no one can reach and nobody can do, Allah ﷻ showed it as a miracle for our Holy Prophet ﷺ. His holy body went to all these places and roamed around, he went there and came back all within two hours. In these two hours, our Holy Prophet ﷺ lived through events as much as thousands of years. Scholars talk about journeys in space and about the speed of sound and the speed of light, these are very small things compared to the Holy Prophet’s ﷺ [journey]. The places he went to and the places he reached, it all happened physically; other than spiritually, it happened physically. So it is a doable thing by humans as well but it needs a great knowledge.

A little bit of that [knowledge] was taken and given to the latest technologies and what not; an atom of an atom of an atom of knowledge is given. Technology of today is zero next to the knowledge of Allah ﷻ. That is why when Mahdi ʿalayhi s-salām appears this technology is lifted and another technology appears, so that today’s technology is as that of the stone age compared to it. The places reached by our Holy Prophet ﷺ, no human or any other creature was able to reach them. This knowledge that’s attributed to Allah ﷻ, all knowledge is attributed to Allah ﷻ, but from that was given to our Holy Prophet ﷺ so it may be of use for people, not for this world but for the hereafter. But also in this world, for those who say there’s no knowledge in Islam or there’s no knowledge from the Holy Prophet ﷺ, this is the biggest evidence against it.

These nonbelievers, also as we said the Muslims who claim to be Aalim (scholar), they’re not Aalim they’re Jahil (ignorant). Those who deny it, we cannot call them Aalim, we can call them ‘Evil Aalim’, ‘ ’, says our Holy Prophet ﷺ. If there’s one punishment for the common people, then they have double the punishment. If they mislead one person then they get double the punishment. If they mislead a thousand, then they get a thousand times the punishment because they are misleading people from faith; they’re making people faithless. This knowledge is Nūr (light), ignorance is darkness and gloom. May Allah ﷻ protect us. May Allah ﷻ grant us the intercession of our Holy Prophet ﷺ and may He make us amongst those who love our Holy Prophet ﷺ more and more with each passing day insha’Allah.

Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.

Hazrat Shaykh Muhammad Mehmet ar-Rabbani 8 March 2021/24 Rajab 1442 Sabah Namaz, Akbaba Dargah