I try to steer away from using the words magical with my children as I always explain to them that magic is nothing but an illusion.So, with the topic of Isra and Miraj, I try and explain it to them from a more miraculous standpoint.Allah (swt) is capable of anything and can do things that we dont see everyday.I have created this worksheet using a few shapes to symbolize the Prophets (as), the buraq, and Jibreel (as).
In case you have forgotten or never learned about this journey, I added some main bullet points on the left of the first sheet as a prompt to remind children and parents of these events I hope you enjoy this and share it as this should be an event parents and children alike review. My favorite takeaway from this whole activity is to remind ourselves and children that the outcome of this was a gift that Allah (swt) gave us of prayer. Talk to your kids about how and why they think Salah is a gift and how we should treat gifts that are bestowed upon us Dowload your activity sheet here. It is a place we can all go to think, to learn, to share our knowledge with others. Hence when God speaks to His creatures, He employs, of necessity, the same means of communication which can be comprehensible to the latter even though His Own speech transcends the means employed in the speech. According to some of the Hadith scholars this journey is believed to have taken place just over a year before Prophet Muhammad migrated to from Makka to Madina, on the 27th of Rajab. According to most traditions - and especially the authentic ones - this event took place one year before Hijrah. Detailed reports about it are found in the works of Hadith and Sirah and have been narrated from as many as twenty-five Companions. The most exhaustive reports are those from Anas ibn Malik, Malik ibn Sasaah, Abu Dharr al-Ghifari and Abu Hurayrah. Some other details have been narrated by Umar, Ali, Abd Allah ibn Masud, Abd Allah ibn Abbas, Abu Said al-Khudri, Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman, and Aishah among other Companions of the Prophet. ![]() However, according to Hadith reports, Gabriel took the Prophet at night from the Kabah to the mosque in Jerusalem on a buraq. On reaching Jerusalem the Prophet along with other Prophets offered Prayers. Al-Nasai, Sunan, K. On that occasion the Prophet received a number of directives including that Prayers were obligatory five times a day. Al-Bukhari, K. Manaqib al -Ansar, Bab al-Miraj; K. Numerous reports on the subject reveal that the Prophet was also enabled on this occasion to observe Heaven and Hell. Al-Bukhari, K. alSalah, Bab Kayfa Furidat al-Salah fi al-Isra and Ibn Hisham, Sirah, vol. I, p. 404 - Ed.). There is no reason, however, to reject all this supplementary information on the grounds that it is opposed to the Quran. Nevertheless, if someone is not quite convinced and hence does not accept some of the details concerning the Ascension mentioned in the Hadith as true, he should not be considered an unbeliever. On the contrary, if someone were to clearly deny any part of the account categorically mentioned in the Quran, he would be deemed to have gone beyond the fold of Islam. The opening statement: Holy is He Who carried His servant by night from the Holy Mosque to the farther Mosque. ![]() Isra Wal Miraj Free From EveryFor quite obviously, to be able to perceive the kind of things mentioned in connection with the event, either in a dream or by means of intuition, is not so wondrous that it should be prefaced by the statement: Holy is He Who carried His servant by night.; a statement which amounts to proclaiming that God was free from every imperfection and flaw. Such a statement would make absolutely no sense if the purpose of it was merely to affirm that God had the power to enable man to have either visions in the course of a dream, or to receive information intuitively. In our view, the words of the experience or a dream vision, was an actual journey, and the observation in question was a visual observation. All was contingent upon Gods will that truths be revealed to the Prophet in this fashion. The Quran tells us, in clear terms, that the Prophet, went from Makka to Jerusalem and then returned to Makka during the night (obviously, without the use of anything resembling an aircraft), owing to Gods power. Now, if we believe this to be possible, what justification can there be to reject as inherently impossible the additional details of the event mentioned in the traditional sources Statements declaring certain acts to be possible and others to be beyond the range of possibility are understandable if these acts are deemed to have been performed by creatures in exercise of the natural powers with which they are endowed. It seams that only two of these objections are worth of any consideration. For had that not been the case, it is argued there would have been no need to transport the Prophet in order for him to experience the presence of God. Second, it is questionable whether the Prophet was enabled to observe Heaven and Hell and to see people being chastised for their sins even though they had not yet been judged by God. How is it that people were subjected to punishment even before the coming of that Day when all will be judged Advertisement.
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