ISRA is the earthly journey that Allah prepared for His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) from Mecca to Jerusalem.. From the Grand Mosque to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.. Night ground flight.

The journey is from Earth to heaven, from Jerusalem to the heavens above, to a level never reached by mankind before, to Sidra Al-Muntaha, to where God Almighty knows.. These two journeys (Isra and Mi'raj) were an important stop in his life (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and in the March of his call in Mecca, after he had endured what he had endured and suffered what the Quraysh had suffered, and then he said: Perhaps I will find a land more fertile than this land at Thaqif, at the people of Taif, and they found the most bin Haritha defends him and tries to take these stones away from him until they shag him in the head.

Why Isra and Miraj

That is why his Lord survived this monologue, and Allah sent to him the king of the mountains saying:

If you want, I will apply the two mountains to them, but he (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) refused that, and he said: I hope that Allah will bring out from their crosses those who worship Allah and do not associate anything with him, O Allah calm my people, they do not know.. Then Allah Almighty prepared for his messenger this journey, Isra and Miraj, so that it would be a secret and amusement for him about what he had suffered, as compensation for what had befallen him, so that Allah Almighty would teach him that if he had offered you to the people of the Earth, the people of heaven would have accepted you, if these people had repelled you, Allah welcomes you, and that the prophets would imitate you, and take you as their imam, this was compensation and in honor of the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) from him, Almighty, and prepare him for the next stage, so that after years it was said that it was three years, and it was said that eighteen months (it is not known exactly the time when I was captured by the messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), but it was before the hijrah for sure, the Hijrah was and Isra and Miraj were preparing for the post-hijrah, post-hijrah life Jihad and armed struggle, he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) will confront all the Arabs, the Arabs will throw him from one bow, the multiple fronts will stand against his Universal calling, the pagan front in the Arabian Peninsula, the pagan front of the Magi worshipers of fire, the Jewish front distorted what God revealed and treacherous that is not expected in the believer of dhimmah, and the Christian Front that distorted the gospel and confused monotheism with paganism, which is represented by the Byzantine Roman state.

 He had to prepare for this next huge stage and face all these fronts, with such a small number and such a small number, so Allah wanted to show him from his signs on Earth and his signs in heaven.. Allah Almighty said: {Praise be to him who was taken captive by his slave at night from the Grand Mosque to the Al-Aqsa mosque around which he blessed us to show him from our verses} so that he may see the signs of Allah in this universe and in heaven as well, as Allah Almighty said in Surah Al-Najm in which he referred to the Miraj: {he has seen from the great signs of his Lord what caught sight and what overwhelmed}.

Allah wanted to show him from these great verses so that his heart would be strengthened and his return would be hardened, and his will would be strengthened in the face of disbelief of all kinds and its errors, as Allah Almighty did with Moses, when he wanted to send him to Pharaoh, this mighty tyrant deified in the earth who told people I am your supreme lord, what I have taught you from another god. When Allah wanted to send Moses to Pharaoh, I see him from his signs to strengthen his heart, so that Pharaoh would not be afraid and would not waver before him, when Allah Almighty survived, he said: {And what is that with your right, Moses* he said is my stick on which I lean and Shake It On My sheep and I have other purposes in it* he said Throw It Down, Moses* so throw it down, and if she is alive she seeks* he said take it and don't be afraid, we will restore her to her first walk* and put your hand to your wing this is what God did with Moses, and this is what God did with Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), I see from his verses On Earth and from his signs in heaven, great signs to prepare for the next stage.

Israel's journey

Jibril (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) that night, while he was enthroned in the stone of Ishmael at the Kaaba, he woke him up to begin this great journey, and he was with Jibril (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) the bear “Al-Buraq”: (its size is above the donkey and without the mule, but its speed was putting its foot at the end of its sight), the messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) Al-Buraq got up, and set off with Jibril (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) to Jerusalem.

When the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) entered and found a meeting that was the greatest meeting ever held on Earth, Allah revived the prophets and messengers،

Abu Dharr (may Allaah be pleased with him) asked the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and he said: O Messenger of Allaah, how many prophets are there He said: (124) thousand, he said: O Messenger of Allah, how many of them are the messengers? (124) He said: (313) a great multitude, these huge numbers of prophets and messengers were resurrected again, and they gathered only in that immaculate place, so what place in the world is as honorable as Jerusalem!

The prophets and messengers all prayed in this place, which Muslims have overfilled today, their imam was Mustafa al-Mukhtar Muhammad bin Abdullah, and they have the best Prayer and completed the delivery, so it was the greatest prayer in history, the greatest Imam and the greatest mamumin.

After this solemn prayer, Jibril (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came with two vessels: (a vessel with milk in it, and a vessel with wine in it), so the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) chose the vessel with milk in it, and Jibril said to him: (praise be to Allaah who guided you by instinct), you gave and gave to your nation, and this was the first sign of the ugliness of wine, and the messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not drink it neither in ignorance nor in Islam.

The Mirage journey

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) ascended with Jibril (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) to the lowest heaven, and if it is smoke, then Jibril asked permission and said: Who Are you He said, 'Gabriel, it was said,' Who Are you with?' He said: Muhammad is with me, so he opened the door and it was said: I did not order to open it to anyone else, so he entered and saw angels and the wonders of Allah's creation in it, and he saw in it a tall man-sixty arms in the sky - and around him a great blackness, and if he turned to his right he laughed, and if he turned to his North he cried, the messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) marveled and asked Jibril, and he said: This is your father Adam and his descendants, on his right are the people of paradise and on his North are the people of hell.

What did the Apostle see in the Seven Heavens

He saw people swimming in a river of blood, and they swam to the shore, and they opened their mouths, and the Angels fed them stones, and they bloody them, and then they swam and returned, and Jibril asked about this, and he said: These are the money-eaters of orphans, and he saw men with big bellies lying on the ground trampled by the Pharaoh's family, and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)said: "O Jibril, what are these?"!He said, " These are usury eaters, and then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) saw people with stinky malicious food and with them tempting delicious food, so they left the delicious food and ate the stinky malicious, so the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was surprised and asked Jibril and he said: These are adulterers.

After that, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) ascended with Jibril (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) to the second heaven, and there he met two noble prophets: Isa and peace be upon them, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) describes Isa and says: (I saw him red, neither tall nor short, many horses-a mole, if he stepped on his head you think water would come down from him), and then ascended to the third heaven and saw Joseph (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), he saw Joseph (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).

The messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) ascended to the fourth and fifth heavens, and Harun (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) saw a great Sheikh in it, and then he ascended to the Sixth Heaven, and he saw Moses (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and he said: "I saw him for a long time Brown, as if he were from the "lion of shenoua" -a tribe of blacks in the island -, light flesh, nose-nose-Arab nose rising from the middle -".

Then he ascended to the seventh heaven, and he saw in it the "established house" as the game of the people of heaven, circling seventy thousand Kings every day who will not return to the day of resurrection, and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) found at the "established house" a man leaning his back to him, saying about him (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): "he is more like people than your companion (similar to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and I said: O Jibril, who is this?" He said:"This is your father Ibrahim (peace be upon him).

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to see these prophets and they would come and greet him and talk to him, and on the outskirts of the seventh heaven he saw Jibril again in his true angelic form as he saw him on the day he was sent to the cave of Hira {and he saw another revelation (14) at Sidra Al-Muntaha} [Surat al-Najm], then he arrived with Jibril to a place that no man or King had reached, so he turned to Jibril (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), so he was like a worn mat out of fear of Allaah, and then Jibril stopped and said: (O Muhammad, go ahead, for Allaah if I took a step forward and got burned).

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) approached Sidra Al-Muntaha with the dignity of Allaah, and described it, saying: "its leaves are like the ears of elephants, and its fruits are like jugs, whereas I am the same, because it is obscured by the light of Allaah, from whom it is obscured, and it has changed and become around it like a bed of gold, so it has become of good and beauty that no human being can describe", so the tongue of the most eloquent human being is unable to describe it from the good {Sidra obscures what obscures (17) What 18 he has seen the great signs of his Lord.

 Meeting the beloved of the Lord of the worlds with the creator of the universes:

At this high place, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) spoke directly to the Lord of the two worlds, there are no translators between them, and at this high place, Allaah imposed prayer on the Prophet's nation (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) to show its status, so the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) urged prayer and said: "the covenant between us and them is prayer, whoever leaves it has disbelieved." it was the first to impose fifty prayers. the messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) still took the advice of Allaah Prophet Moses (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and asked the in number, and fifty in remuneration).

After this great encounter, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) returned to Jerusalem, and from there he returned to Mecca, and on the way he saw a caravan that was far ahead of him and guided them to his place, all these events were in part of the night, he left at night and returned before dawn.

Post-Israa and Miraj events

On the morning of the second day, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) sat down at the Kaaba to relive what he had gone through, and Abu Jahl came to him and was surprised by his condition, so he sat down to ask him, and the messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told him that he went to Jerusalem and came back, so he smiled and and he said, ' when he said that, he believed it.

Then Abu Bakr came and saw the Quraysh calling on people to hear the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) to lie to him, and some of them said: Do You, O Abu Bakr, have in your companion a claim that he has come this night to the holy house, prayed in it and returned to Mecca? - And we cut off the livers of camels to her for a month! And Abu Bakr said, ' What do you like about that?'! God is telling me that the news is to come from God from heaven to Earth in an hour of the night or day, so I believe him, this is far beyond what you admire from him.

Then I accept he wants to show the sincerity of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and he said: O Prophet of Allaah, did you tell these people that you came to Jerusalem this night? - He said yes, he said, ' O Prophet of Allah, describe him to us?' I came to him, and the messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, and he lifted me up until I looked at him, and he made the messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) describe him, and Abu Bakr said, 'Believe me, I testify that you are the messenger of Allah, and whenever he described something to him, he said,' Believe me, I testify that you are the messenger of Allah, and he made people ask him about the exact details, and the messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) answered them, so that when he finished he said to Abu Bakr, "and you, Father Bakr: are the friend," and he called him the friend that day.

Then the messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) argued with them and told them about the caravan that he saw on his return, described to them the camel ahead of it, its decoration and its cargo, then he told them that it would arrive to them after three days, and on the Promised Day the Quraysh gathered and the caravan came according to the description mentioned by the messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).

Good news for Muslims

Thus, Muslims should be aware of the importance of Jerusalem in their history and the importance of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in their religion, in their faith and in their lives, and for this reason Muslims have been keen throughout history to keep this mosque in their hands. And when the Crusaders occupied the Al-Aqsa mosque, when they came to Palestine with their time, their cause, their Trinity and their cross, they came from Europe, the Frankish wars or as they call the Crusades, these came and established kingdoms and Emirates for them, in Palestine and occupied the Al-Aqsa Mosque, God prepared the children of Islam, and from the Muslim leaders who gave their lives to liberate this mosque, and these leaders were non-Arabs, it began with Imad al-Din Zinki the great leader, and his son, the martyr Nur al-Din Mahmud, who is nicknamed the martyr he was martyred, but he lived his life eager to testify for the sake of Allah, and he was likened to the adult caliphs by his Justice, asceticism and good policy, and the disciple of Nur al-Din Mahmud Salahuddin Ayyubi, the Kurdish hero On whose hands God achieved victory, in the Battle of Hattin and the Battle of the conquest of Jerusalem.. Jerusalem was opened and only as much blood was shed there as necessary, while when the Crusaders entered it, people were soaked in blood to the knees, thousands and tens of thousands were killed, but this is Islam.

The place, not the building

The Al-Aqsa mosque when ISRA was there was no mosque built, there was a place for the mosque, as the Almighty said {and I gave Ibrahim the place of the house}, so he said to the Al-Aqsa Mosque as a sign that the place will turn into a mosque, which is the farthest for the people of the Hijaz, and this means that Islam will extend and will take this place controlled by the Roman Empire, this was a good news for Muslims that their religion will appear and their state will expand, and their king will extend and there will be a far mosque, and it was.. The Muslims entered Jerusalem during the reign of Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him), the patriarch of Jerusalem Severnius refused to hand over the key to the city except to the caliph of the Muslims, he refused to hand it over to the military commanders, he said: I want the Caliph himself, and Omar came on a famous exciting historical trip and received the key to the city, and wrote a covenant, which is called the “age Covenant”, a covenant for these to secure themselves, their money, their offspring, temples, rituals and everything that people are keen on, provided that they stipulated that none of the Jews live in it. When Muslims entered Jerusalem, there was not a single Jew in it, the Romans completely eliminated the Jewish presence from the year 135 ad; therefore, the Muslims did not take Jerusalem from the Jews or from the Israelis, but took it from the Romans, and before that the Jewish state was destroyed by the Babylonians, and after that the Jewish presence itself was destroyed by the Romans and the Jewish state disappeared more than 25 centuries ago, in 486 BC, and now the Jews say: we are the owners of Jerusalem and we have a historical right.. Where is this right We are the owners of this right, Jerusalem was inhabited by Arabs, from ancient, Jebusites and Canaanites thirty centuries BC, and then Muslims took it from fourteen centuries, or more.. Where is your right And Where Are you calling We reject this logic and stick to our right, we stick to Al-Aqsa Mosque and do not overdo it, if we overdo it, we overdid our first kiss, we overdid it in the land of Isra and Miraj, we overdid it in the third of the two great mosques, we overdid our religion, our religion, our dignity and our rights and we will never overdo it, we will continue to resist and strive.. Israel wants to force us to the fait accompli, it does something every day, erects settlements, demolishes houses, threatens people in Jerusalem, expels them and does not allow them to return, does not allow anyone to build a house.. They are saying now take the stones of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, we will Number them for you, transfer them to the Saudi kingdom, build whatever mosque you want there, and we are ready to pay you the expenses, as if the stones are sacred, the place is the one that God has sanctified, not the stones, we can bring any stones but the sanctity of this place that God has blessed around, in this land where God has blessed the worlds, we will not accept that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is lost, we will never accept the loss of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to all Muslims

Every Muslim has a duty towards this mosque, it's not just about the Palestinians, all Muslims are responsible for Jerusalem and for the Al-Aqsa Mosque, I told some Palestinian brothers that if you failed and gave up and were defeated psychologically and handed over the Al-Aqsa Mosque, we would have to fight you as we fight the Jews, in defense of our sanctities and who are the Palestinians Yes, there are more Palestinians than Palestinians, more Jerusalemites than Jerusalemites, more maximalists than maximalists, this is our mosque, this is our sanctity, this is the dignity of our nation, this is our faith, we will remain my kind Muslims, we stand against this Judaization of Al-Aqsa and its sanctities. Allah Almighty wanted to link this mosque with this anniversary so that every year whenever the anniversary of Isra comes at the end of Rajab and Muslims celebrate it everywhere, it reminds us of this important matter, this serious issue, this holy issue.. Brothers, we cannot overdo it, if the Jews have dreamed of establishing a state and have been able to achieve their dream, then we must dream that we cannot overdo our mosque, even if we see the bitter reality that this surrender surrenders, and this defeat is defeated, it is not permissible for us to walk in it defeated. We must believe that Allah is blessed and Almighty with us and that Allah is our supporter and that he is the manifestation of his religion over the whole religion, and that he is the supporter of the believing category, and as Imam Ahmad and Tabari narrated from Abu uMama Al-bahli (may Allah be pleased with him) that he (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “a sect of my nation is still He said the holy house and the holy house.