Devotees offered special prayers all the night in mosques and at home to seek blessings of Allah for the welfare of the entire nation and the Muslim Ummah. COURTESY
The Holy Shab-e-Meraj has been observed in the country on Thursday night with sacred dedication. With safety measures because of pandemic, different Islamic organisations arranged special prayers and milad mahfils in mosques and other places to seek blessings of the Almighty Allah. Devotees offered special prayers all the night in mosques and at home to seek blessings of Allah for the welfare of the entire nation and the Muslim Ummah.
Shab-e-Meraj, (Night of Forgiveness) is a glorious night, marking the Isra and Meraj of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) when he was taken from Makkah to Al-Haram-Al-Sharif (also known as the Temple Mount) and was then taken to heaven. In the journey, the prophet travelled to heaven where the Allah gave him some instructions to take back to the faithful regarding the details of prayers.
Isra and Mi’raj, also known as Al Isra’ wal Miraj (Shab-e-Meraj), is observed on the 27th day of the month of Rajab, the seventh month in the Islamic calendar. This event marks the night that Allah took Muhammad (SAW) on a journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and then to heaven.
Meraj was a journey by the Prophet to the heaven. In that night, Archangel Jibril came to the Prophet and brought him a conveyance called Buraq and the Prophet got on and moved toward Jerusalem. At the time of mounting on Buraq, it began to show disobedience and Jibril hit it and told it, “Be calm o Buraq! Previously no prophet has ever mounted on you and in the future, no one like him would ever ride you.” After that hit, Buraq was calm and took him up which was not so high while Jibril was with him.
Entering al-Aqsa Mosque In the middle of the way, the Prophet stopped in Medina, mosque of Kufa, Tur Sina and Bethlehem which is the birthplace of Prophet Isa (AS) and prayed there. He then entered al-Aqsa Mosque and prayed there too.
Apparently, the Prophet ascended to the skies from the mosque of Qubbat al-Sakhra. The reason for naming it is the existence of a rock inside it from where the Prophet ascended to the skies. In the travel log of Nasir Khusraw, it has been claimed that upon the entrance of the Prophet to the mosque, that rock ascended before him and after his ascent that rock never came back to earth.
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