The Miraculous Journey Through the Heavens Al Isra wal Miraj Dr Omar Sulaiman

de brothers and sisters tonight we are going to be speaking about one of the greatest Journeys in the history of recorded faith that is the Journey of the Prophet sallallah alai wasallam from Mecca to Jerusalem to the heavens and back and Subhan Allah as we get to it obviously in the previous lecture we covered all of the leadup to so just quick recap the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam has just faced the year of grief he lost he lost every door to his has been shut he faces the rejection of the people of without the comfort of those who used to console him after other forms of rejection that he faced sallallah wasam Allah subhanahu waala takes him on this journey from the house of uman the sister of from meca to Jem to the heavens on the way from Mecca to Jerusalem as we said Allah subhana allowed the prophet wasam to pray in different locations he ascends the with took the heart of the messenger of Allah sallah alaihi wasallam and this time instead of taking something out of it he poured something into it and that was what two things that we can never get enough of well Zam we can never get enough of Zam for sure faith and belief to affirm him further in faith and belief seals up his chest he prayed Sall two in the he made his way to and he prayed two there not knowing that it was until told him that this is the place of your hij and then he prayed in Sinai where Allah subh spoke directly to and then he prayed in where the birth of took place and then he arrives at Al he arrives at Jerusalem where strikes place for the stone he ties the to that stone he enters into he prays twoam and then he turns around and he sees all of the prophets have been gathered for himam and he leads all 124,000 prophets in prayer afterwards the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam will take the second part of this journey which is the which is the Ascension of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam as we said Allah could have taken the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam directly from Mecca to the heavens why did he choose this place and we listed number of reasons one of them was that this was the at the time and so it is sign of bringing the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam nearest to Allah subhana he will bring him to the nearest point in duny and then he will bring him to the nearest point in the heavens by the of the Prophet the closest of the Prophet when Allah will speak directly to him we talked about the virtues of the land the itself the land itself is Mu it's blessed and so Allah subhana brought him there for that purpose we talked about the virtues of and so Allah brought him there for that purpose and the virtues of the Salah that are there in particular from the Dua of that whoever prays two raas there purely for the sake of Allah subhana will leave with their sins completely taken away like the day that their mother gave birth to them we talked about this being the place of and Prophets and martyrs that not single handspan of that area exists without prophet that has lived and dwelt and taught from that place and we said that this is also the only place where prophets have ascended to subhana that we know about ascended from that place and also Isa shall descend in sham so this is the portal between the heavens and the Earth we also said that this is the place of the end of times that all of the significant incidents of the end of times tend to focus on that area finally it is it is the place of assembly and from that place as believers we pray that we will go on our journey to Jenna as the prophet went on his journey through the heavens and saw what he saw wasallam quick recap so that we can now get into the itself the beautiful Ascension of the Prophet wasallam now quick note what month are we going into now Raj and it is very popular opinion amongst the scholars that this journey that we are speaking about happened in the month of rajab okay and that's why there is always specifically lot that surrounds the 27th of rajab however just like other significant incidence in the it's not actually you know certain that this is the time that this happened with the prophet Salli wasam everything from the birth date of the Prophet Sall alhi wasallam to the death tape of the Prophet Sall alhi wasallam to the Hijra of the Prophet Sall alhi wasallam there is there is difference of opinion as to when exactly this took place and Records all of the opinions in this regard many of the scholars indeed said that it is the month of rajab which we are in right now large group of Scholars said that it was in fact it's probably the most dominant opinion after the the celebrated opinion if you will that it was the same month the prophet Sall was was born in that he died in and The Rebirth of the prophet of sorts of took place in and the hij of the Prophet took place in some of them said it was the second month of and some even said Ramadan that it was the month of Ramadan obviously at that time the command to fast the month of Ramadan had not yet come and that's very minor opinion but the that tried to justify that said well this is month in which the Quran was revealed and it is month in which many blessings descend and so it would make sense that it took place in this time all in all Allah knows best but of course it is in the memory of the Muslims that it is that the prophet wasallam would have taken this journey before he takes that Journey as we said who washed his heart with zamzam offered him two drinks the drinks were what no one knows what was offered to him wine and Lebon heard halib that's how you know we get into the shami debate where is it is it Le milk and wine sallallah alai wasallam he was offered these two drinks and the prophet wasam chose leon he chose to drink from the milk now obviously anything coming from the hand of am is if you want to make the argument he's not sinful Sall wasallam for what he takes in fact the prohibition will come later but the prophet sallai wasallam chose what was closer to the and by the way no one gets to go and drink alcohol and say it was offered to me by an Angel and that's why no it's Haram for you all the time the prophet wasam chose the milk and felt Joy at that and in Elation he said all Praises be to Allah who always guides you to the Natural Choice the good choice your disposition if you would have drinken the wine your would have gone astray it would have had an effect on the orientation of your so the prophet sallai wasallam chose well as he always would sallallah alaihi wasallam due to the Natural guidance that came from Allah subhana waala to him is left in Jerusalem while the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam will now Ascend through the heavens with the hand of jel now some of the books of SE it's not in in Hadith form which means that the authenticity is not as rigorous they narrate that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam saw like ladder of sorts which the prophet sallai wasallam said resembles what man sees at the time of death something that represents Ascension but it's not like the ladders that you are used to something that represents that you would move up high and it's made of silver and gold but it represents the transition from realm to realm that the believing Soul takes at the time of their death however what we know what is authentic of course is takes the hand of the prophet and he ascends with him Sall wasam the way that this process is going to work is that every time the prophet sallallahu Alam gets to one gate of the heavens the angel who is at that gate will ask who is there and it is and who is with you Muhammad has he been sent for and will say yes let me give little bit of context to this because it's extremely important for 23 years the rupture of the heavens was greater than ever when jel would come down to the prophet with the Quran and the angels would surround as he was coming down from heaven to heaven and they would say what did your lord say and would say he spoken the truth and he is the most high and the most great the Angels would faint at the strength of the Revelation the power of the Revelation coming down to the heart of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and so they know that in these 23 years Supernatural things are happening of The Descent of the Quran to the heart of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and when Allah permits some of them are able to come down from the heavens in the Entourage of as he reveals it to the heart of the Prophet wasallam like for example which came to the prophet Salli wasallam and he looked up and he saw 70,000 Angels accompanying with the Revelation to speak it to his heart for the first time to descend it into his heart now the man himself is going going through those Heavens notice as well that they're not asking when says it is Muhammad and as says they're accustomed to the angel of death bringing up the souls why is jel bringing man with him notice that when the says it is muhamed don't see anyone's lips moving they don't say who's that they all know who he is sallallah alaihi wasallam and so they step aside and they welcome the prophet am to that heaven and they say welcome to the noble prophet and so they're celebrating him wasallam as he's going from Earth to heaven to heaven to Heaven they were waiting for his arrival sallallah alaihi wasallam and in that in his Ascension the prophet wasallam is seeing that just as the world was closing in on him the heavens are opening up up to him just as more and more people were closing in on him to reject him more and more angels are welcoming him Sall alai wasallam into the heavens and there's also beautiful reflection here that the prophet Salli wasallam mentioned that every Heaven is bigger than the one prior to it so the heavens open up each one of the heavens is like needle in desert drop of water in the ocean so insignificant in size compared to the next one so what about what about this world that we're in right now and Subhan Allah if you think about that you know often times when we are caught in our world of problems we forget how small our world actually is and so what Allah has created is bigger than your world bigger than your perception bigger than your interactions and so when you realize that when you gain perspective on that then it's not just your world that gets smaller your world's problems get smaller as well because you're able to cast it into that perspective and so the ratio of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam perspective is growing as he is ascending from Heaven to heaven and seeing more and more and more and more and then the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam will meet the prophets now this is the the core subject of what we're going to be speaking about tonight or reflecting upon particularly from tonight is the meeting of the Prophet with the specific prophets that Allah subhanahu wa taala has chosen every prophet Prophet before the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam prophesized on Earth his arrival they knew of the Seal of the prophets to come and now every prophet in some capacity is welcoming the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam upon arrival now all of the prophets were present in but Allah chose select few for him to meet in person sallam and to actually have conversation with and there is so much to reflect upon here of the wisdom and could literally say that there are books upon books that have been written just elaborating on the hik the wisdom of the Prophet meeting the prophets that he met and what they represented at that particular point of his journey and want to make few things clear number one the prophets that he met are not necessarily the most important of the prophets and Messengers there are some that are missing that are of higher rank than some of those that he will meet that's number one number two the order that he meets them in does not represent their rank necessarily in terms of virtue now Allah says that he does not distinguish between any of his Messengers that's talking about the scope of their mission not their virtues because there are some prophets that are higher in virtue than others and the prophets that are highest in virtue are so generally speaking you have which are 315 or so of the 124,000 and the every messenger is prophet as well as being messenger not every Prophet is also messenger so that group of rul are higher than are higher than those that are just amongst the amongst The Messengers there are there are those who are of the highest rank amongst the messengers of Allah one of them who in fact is the first of of them who's not seen whoes the prophet doesn't necessarily talk to in is who who's the first to Mankind and we know that from the of the of intercession that on the day of judgment as the messenger of Allah sallu alhi wasallam talks about the people running from Prophet to Prophet Messenger to messenger when they see they will say you are the first of Allah's you are the first of Allah's messenger why because the first people to commit shik on Earth were the people of therefore is doing more than simply reminding the people of the Covenant of Adam he's coming with the legislation he's bringing them back to with the legislation so he is the first of the messengers of Allah the prophet sallai was does not meet him all right except in the Gathering of so that's number one the second thing in terms of if you're reading in Allah mentions if you go in the order of the prophets so first it's then who's next let's go through the of who comes after and then comes comes right did miss anyone I'm trying to go through the ayat in my head as well so it's Ayah like 40 until about 55 right until the end of that verse the point is is that the order of the prophets has wisdom to it and the scholars mentioned that of the benefits of that inah believe it's ibraim and then and then is and then is that Allah subhana wa tala the what Allah is highlighting here is indeed The Virtue and Musa is greater than is in terms of virtue otherwise if this is about coherence in terms of just structural coherence of family ibraim and then is but is higher in rank than is even though is is the son of ibraim right right so ibraim and is and then ID andr is certainly not as high as is or or ibim the point is is that when Allah gives us when he gives us an order there's there's wisdom to that order and so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam will meet people in very particular wise order and that order is not of virtue otherwise YF was would not be higher than would not be higher than because is from he's from the greatest of Allah's Messengers and some of the scholars you know they debate after the prophet alhi wasallam is ibim is it is and they all make their arguments in that regard as to who the greatest of Allah's Messengers after wasam actually is okay so there's wisdom here of the prophet meeting these different prophets and Messengers what want to do is give you framework want to give you framework as to how to reflect on those wisdoms and I'm summarizing about 600 Pages here so bear with me see it through the following lenses as the highlighted it number one dominant theme in the life of the Prophet Sall was rejection the nature of rejection the prophet Salli wasall was being rejected right and left right so see the order in terms of the nature of how were rejected by their people that's number one number two the magnitude of grief because it was the year of grief so the magnitude of hardship that these prophets faced see it in terms of the magnitude of hardship okay so that's another way I'm going to go through prophet by Prophet inshallah number three the dominant theme in this regard is migration is Hijra every one of the prophets that the prophet will meet and speak to made massive Hijra massive migration and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is about to embark on his hij because is takes place about year before the Hijra of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alai wasallam it was Glad Tidings of the Hijra to come so three themes again can you all repeat them to me need to know you're with me inshallah before proceed the weather is nice I'll keep you all night what is it rejection the magnitude of hardship and grief so rejection hardship and hij these are the three main things that you can summarize the majority of what the have written about this and I'm giving these three themes to make it easy for you to process and digest it as the dominant themes so let's go through them now the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam says that in the first Heaven saw man and he was sitting and there were some Souls that were going to his right and some Souls that were going to his left when he looked to his right he laughed when he looked to his left he cried and he kept on looking to his right and kept on looking to his left so he said asked who is this man he said that this is so the first prophet that he sees Isam and he says the people on his right or all of these people are his offspring the souls on his right Are the souls that are destined for Jenna the souls on his left are the wicked Souls that are destined for Hellfire may Allah protect us from the Hellfire and make us from the people of so explains when he looks to the right when he sees saved Soul he's happy when he looks to the left when he sees soul that is doomed he's saddened by that now he greets the prophet sallallahu alai wasallam says welcome to my righteous son and righteous Prophet okay so Adam greets the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam in that way now what are the wisdoms of this through those lenses first and foremost he resembles the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam in his mission to save as many people as possible and the prophet Salli wasallam was the one about whom Allah says that the prophet wasall felt so much grief it's like you're killing yourself over their fate over where they're going to go and the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that am to you like man that is man who Kindles fire and he stands in front of that fire and the bugs start to fly into that fire and I'm trying trying to catch as many people as possible so that they don't fall into that fire and the prophet said and I'm grabbing you by the waste belt like I'm not letting you go I'm trying to hold you to the very last moment so that you don't slip out of my hands but you're insisting upon throwing yourself in that fire so Adam's depiction the father of humanity it represents what the prophet wasam feels when he sees saved Soul versus when he sees doomed Soul the joy of the messenger of Allah was over salvation the sadness over the of the Prophet over damnation so it represents the theme in the messenger of Allah s's life faced the core enemy of humanity the rejection and the enmity of Shan himself El himself and El is the enemy of all Humanity the enmity of all of men and women that come from The Offspring of Adam so the rejection and the the enmity of Shan who is the enemy of humanity his hardship was that he was expelled from Paradise out of paradise and his Hijra was from Paradise to Earth the migration of Adam Alam is the most drastic of migrations in that regard from Paradise to Earth and that Hijra would end up being good for him that Hijra would end up being good for him because as describes in this regard that when caused Adam to be expelled from Paradise he was overjoyed but what he didn't understand is that Adam is like the diver who goes to the bottom of the ocean he gathers the pearls and the rubies at the bottom of the ocean and then he comes up once again and he has in his hand the pearls and the rubies of the bottom of the ocean so Adam was expelled from Paradise the prophet was expelled from Mecca but he came back to Paradise with even more in his hand of valuables than when he was expelled so the sadness that he felt at expulsion was real sadness he cried for hundreds of years the prophet was cried at the expulsion of Mecca he turned around and looked at Mecca and he cried over the Hijra from Mecca sallallahu alaihi wasallam but he came back and the pearls and rubies in his hands were undoubtedly the an came back higher elevated with new group of people so think of the them in this regard the rejection and enmity of Shan the hardship of being expelled from Paradise to Earth the Hijra from Paradise to Earth that ended up being in his favor when he returns home he returns home with even more just as the prophet would return home with even more sallam then he ascends to the second heaven and as the prophet Salli wasallam ascends to the second heaven who did he mean if you Mumble to yourselves can't hear you so it doesn't help me when just hear mumbling in the audience someone say it loud like you know he said met the two righteous cousins who are the two righteous cousins and who was beheaded in aam his head taken to where we now see in Damascus right who they attempted to crucify in the same place the prophet sallai wasam just left right and Allah ascended him to the heavens from Philistine where the Prophet was now ascending in the heavens andam is looking ATA and and of the wisdoms that the mention ofam being in the second heaven is that he is in the closest of the heavens above the heaven immediately of the Earth because he still meant to come back again so his descent is still imminent at any point and so he is in that heaven at this moment these are not the very important here these are not the degrees of we're not talking about that yet we're still talking about the heavens not paradise and there is difference between the two and here the prophet wasam said he described his Beauty he said that he the the person who resembles him most is did lecture on him on the first please go watch it it's he's an incredible fascinating human being and the thing is subh when the prophet was said this was still CF he was disbeliever and he was one of the key negotiators of qur who tried to grab the beard of the Prophet Salli but Allah guided him to Islam and he died an incredible companion but beautiful appearance very imposing appearance is described he said it looked like he had just come out of the shower long beautiful curly hair and like the jums are falling from his hair the prophet Salli wasam was struck by his Beauty now Subhan Allah this is side note because it's really interesting in the narration of his skin is described as lighter in the narration of says the prophet did not say Rish skin but instead he described the skin as darker tone which means what so the the debate over what color Isa was even goes back to the in that regard but but Isa certainly did not look like the guy on Passion of the Christ or in all the movies that you're seeing across your screen he definitely doesn't look European and it definitely doesn't matter what color he is and that's actually the point is that it's actually subh completely irrelevant in this regard okay Funny Story by the way the guy that played Jesus in Passion of the Christ got struck by lightning two times on set look it up ask your chat GPT or Google or whatever all right even forgot the guy's name got struck by lightning twice okay on set but he still went and finish the movie like he's not getting it even at that point that maybe this isn't the best idea to imitate prophet of Allah in this regard so the prophet met he met the two Noble righteous cousins in that heaven in terms of rejection Adam faced the enmity of humanity and face the enmity of their own of their own people okay two wisdoms that the scholars mention they say either it's that the enmity is closing in so some of the scholars mentioned there is there's the enmity of like and the enmity of humanity and then the enmity of your own people which hurts more okay so some of them said it's referring to that some of them said it's because the prophet wasam when he would make his way to Medina would now face the enmity of the same enemies of in this regard when they turned onam and some of them even said to the prophet wasam we can believe in you but not Jesus right as condition Subhan Allah in that regard so either way it's the enmity is closing in the nature of rejection is closing in as as Adam made Hijra from to Earth and back makes Hijra from Earth to the heavens and then back and when he comes back to the Earth he will grow in his portfolio in his profile so it will not just be proof against those who try to kill him and an expansion of his virtue right establishing and Justice on the entire Earth and leading with righteousness for seven years and making and living and dying in Al Medina and all the beautiful things about his second coming and his second return that are recorded right and everything that he gains from that but it's also Subhan Allah the entire package of the continuation of his Good Deeds so the point is is that Isa makes Hijra he was forced right they tried to expel him they tried to crucify him Allah took him to the heavens he comes back to the Earth and expands in his portfolio and so his Hijra was better for him as well his grief his hardship the enormous hardship of facing an attempted crucifixion and Subhan Allah you know if you look back at the at the stories of the attempts of crucifixion just as there was an attempt to diversify blame diversify the blame what was the plot of qur against the prophet Salli wasallam shed his blood with multiple hands so that no one hand has to take the blame No One Tribe has to take the blame and that was the plot that they would make against the messenger of Allah sallu alaih wasallam so Allah took from being squashed into place of crucifixion to the heavens and the reward for him continues in this regard then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam ascends who did the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam see yfam messenger of Allah meets so forgot to mention this they greeted the prophet they said welcome to noble prophet and noble brother and the prophet said am the closest of people in the world to to Jesus the son of Mary because there is no Prophet there is no Prophet between he and and the prophets are brothers they're like Step Brothers right that they share the same source of Revelation so all of the prophets now after Adam they're greeting him noble Prophet noble brother so yfam and says to him welcome to noble prophet and noble brother what do you think the prophet sallai wasam noticed about yfam first his Beauty now you all are talking mallah aldah everyone's awake now he brought in yfam and everyone woke up YF the prophet was stunned by his Beauty said he was given half of Al Jam half of beauty Subhan Allah and as Scholars say was given all of beauty you know there's Who more beautiful yuam or Muhammad sallahu alaihi wasallam and the scholars reconciled they said Muhammad alaihi wasallam was actually more beautiful than yfam but his Jamal was covered by his Jal his Beauty was covered by his glory which is why people couldn't stare at the prophet wasallam you know when someone's just too much that you put your head down and that's why like we were with him but we put our heads down couldn't describe him to you because we didn't have it in us the audacity to stare at him sallallah alaihi wasall even though he was so beautiful because he had so much so much presence so we put our heads down so the prophet Jamal was beautifi was clothed by his Jalal in that regard his glory and so there was respect that clothed his Jamal yfam was given half of Al Jamal half of beauty and Subhan Allah this is of course wisdom and and gem for all of us that we will all enter into with the beauty of right with that same type of beauty now think about it in terms of the themes enmity there's the enmity of your own family the enmity of humanity the enmity of your own people the enmity of your own Brothers your own family which is the case of yfam and that's the worst of them all right that it comes from your own home right that rejection and that enmity was forced to make from Philistine to miss and it was for his own good in that he became king right or what resembles king resembles prime minister right in his role when he made that Hijra his hardship was followed by tremendous ease everything that yfam went through had parallel ease so he went from being the favored brother to being the favored leader right he went from being prisoner slave and prisoner to being king and rescuer every there there's flip like if you took YF alam's life and you put side by side Allah replaced everything that he went through with an ease that resembles the hardship that he went through similar to the messenger of Allah and Subhan Allah the wisdom and the beauty as it relates to Philistine his brothers threw him into well in Palestine under the rubble right they threw him into well in Palestine thinking that he would be erased they threw him into the bottom of the Earth in Palestine Allah subhana waala allowed the prophet to meet him in the High Heavens just think about the imagery of that thrown into well in Philistine and now the prophet sallam is meeting him in the third heaven and just as the brothers of the Prophet Salli wasallam right his own tribe his own tribe which is so hurtful wanted to get rid of him right and wanted to expel him from Mecca in hopes that the world would not hear of him it was from Medina that the light of the Prophet would reach the world and Allah would Elevate the name of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam throughout history throughout the heavens and the Earth for all places and all times and so you don't rid yourself of this man Allah will save him will Elevate him and then the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam met who and Allah says the only thing we get about is that we raised him to lofty position we elevated him to high position you too will be hel elevated to high position how does he end up in the fourth Heaven mentions of the narrations in this regard that wanted to ask how much time he had left on Earth for the sake of his da he's planning big project he's planning the next mission of his da and he wanted to know how much time he has left so took him to meet Mal to ask about his appointed time as he is taking him through the heavens Mal is descending to take the soul of am asks how much time does he has have left mik takes his soul right there in the fourth heaven mean he's the only man to die in the heavens Allah wrote it for him that he would be raised to that place to die to have his soul taken and so he resided there right and remained there and actually died did not die yet had actually died in the fourth Heaven what is the lesson that we take for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam or of the beautiful reflections was not pursuing was not pursuing high mention but Allah subhana wa tala gave him one because of his sincerity ad wanted to know how much more time he had to spread Allah's greatness on earth right and Allah subhana gave him great position in the heavens likewise the prophet wasam in his sincerity he wasn't seeking throne he was seeking he was seeking Allah's pleasure and Allah subhana would not just bring him back to mecah but he would bring him to fatah to the conquest of meca mea and the fat of if you will the opening of paradise as well Allah would give him so much more would bring him back in much mightier mention then there's turn in the prophets that he meets in the fifth Heaven who did he meet har and mention about him he was loved by his people and he came back to his people beloved just as the prophet Salli wasall would one day return to his people beloved okay so there was love was beloved by his people he had the softer approach and he had the higher love even though Subhan Allah they made mockery of him later on they call him the Fallen prophet and so they mocked Sister of Aaron sister of Haron but the mentioned the return of the mus the return of har or the return of the Prophet wasallam to gain the love of his people as well and then in the sixth Heaven the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam met who again welcome to noble Prophet I'm sorry when to righteous prophet and to righteous brother and the prophet wasallam is meeting mam now if you think about the way that the Quran was being revealed to the messenger of Allah Sall alaihi wasallam mam is the most revealed about man in the Quran but that is more of reality it's more of reality meaning if you take the Quran up until the point of it's not necessarily it's many of these prophets that he's meeting and Subhan Allah of the beauty of it is that imagine YF was revealed to the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam to give him comfort in his heart to give the prophet Sall affirmation and right after Surah yusf comes to the Prophet The Prophet meets yuam so the prophets the nature of the stories of the prophets that was coming to the prophet were the prophets in their hardships even mam the the bits and pieces of his story up until that point are in the capacity of the hardships that he faced and so here are the names that were being revealed to you and now you're seeing them in their full Glory as Allah subh has given to them in Medina of course especially as the prophet is dealing with is and you have you have the longer suras the long stories of mam start to come as well but the prophet Salli wasallam said saw Mam and he was crying was crying too but started to cry in different way and they weren't the tears of Despair or tears of grief they were tears of joy but with Halal en EnV I'll talk about what EnV is talk about the difference between Envy where you want something bad to happen to someone and where you you see something and you envy them for the right reasons and in good ways so like the prophet mentioned someone who Allah gave money to but they spend it and someone who Allah gave to knowledge too and they teach it so you wish not for the money or for the fame you envy them over their Good Deeds want to want to Aspire to do good like they're doing like the Envy of the poor the poor of the of the of the rich right in this regard the poor of the an of the rich right so he's crying and he said this is young man who you sent after me and his umah will enter into Jenna in greater numbers than my Muslim so it's like there's sense of Pride and love for his brother but at the same time knows that his was the right before the of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam subh Allah so many connections you can make in this regard the largest umah after the of Muhammad is the of mam the largest on the day of judgment after the of Muhammad wasallam is the of mam as it relates to was it not at the Gates of Jerusalem with his and they earned the prohibition upon themselves but this umah was promised instead and given its opening and its security until the day of judgment instead right so it is not looking at the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam wishing for his downfall or hating the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam in any way it's yaah Allah that's him this brother of mine who you gave even greater share of entrance into welcome to my Pious brother and my Pious Pious Prophet we'll get back to on The Descent he then goes to meet ibim obviously mam the story of his hij well known traveled through the sea right placed into the Nile toan and back and so many other places right and the hardship was clear ibraim now the prophet sallam will meet him and Subhan Allah you think about the leadup to this me meeting with ibim as he enters now into the highest Heaven he says that saw man reclined with his back against what appeared to be means the frequently visited home it's the equivalent of the in the heavens 70,000 Angels enter every day to do ta never returning so imagine the sight of ta in the heavens of the Mala the equivalent of the Kaa on earth ibraim when he built the Kaa on Earth with his son and he made Dua for the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam to be from his descendants and to achieve what he was destined to achieve and now ibraim is sitting in the heavens with his back to the Kaa and he sees the fruit of his Dua approaching didn't the prophet introduce himself and say am the Dua of my father ibraim and his son Muhammad wasam just came from the Kaa on Earth there are too many connections to to make here on the say said was what ibim rode Frome to Mecca to leave ha and is and back now the prophet wasallam boards the from the same place of is to phe and now up to ibraim and he's from the Kaa of the Earth to the Kaa of the heavens and looking at the man from whom Dua manifested him alaihi wasallam and DA to ab ibim and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that I've never seen man who looks more like me than ibraim and so the description of ibraim is the same sh of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he had long black hair he had bold eyes he had thick beard the same description of the messenger of allahi wasam in the sh smooth nose is all the same description of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaih wasallam and ibraim as he's sitting with his back to the Ka in the heavens and his legs extended he says welcome to noble prophet and to noble son the only one who called him that before was Adam and now ibraim was calling him that as well Subhan Allah the Journey of Started from the of and here he was the Chamber of is here he was the promised Prophet the son ofam through that son and he says said to my father he said and who was always thinking beyond the immediate when he was in Mecca he wasn't just thinking about the son that was with him and if they would establish the prayer he was thinking about the descendants of that son extending the prayer and then the descendants of that son having prophet amongst them he's always going Beyond and here just as he made du for the Believers IIM says to the prophet when you go back want you to give my Salam to your and tell them that jna has vast plain of pure soil and sweet water on leveled lands and the plants and the Trees of jna grow by saying subul so he sent Salam and he gave the prophet Sall wasallam something to tell us to increase our share in Al now Subhan Allah IIM was always thinking about the Believers and even in that momentous occasion he says give my Salam to the Believers and he said Allah want them to establish the prayer and our prayer is established with at the endhan and he said Salam to us and our prayer includes Salam upon him so he met his father IIM and IIM faced the the enmity of his own father and he too was expelled he was actually thrown into the fire all of his clothes burnt off and not single person to take him in and the mention subh when the prophet made hij he had the ANS to receive him IIM had no ANS he said to there is no believer on Earth EX for you and me it's just us but look where Allah brought him to so you are destined after this hardship for greatness in way that you could never perceive the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam mentioned that at that point we continue to ascend and forgive me know I'm going for longer time tonight he said as we contined to ascend assumed new form when he came to me in the beginning of he was wearing green garment but he was in his human form now had broken into his Heavenly form only saw that form of at the beginning of the Revelation in said saw spreading his 600 Wings across the entire heavens and the Earth filling up the space between the heavens and the Earth and saw him from this way this time the prophet sees him that way from the heavens so he sees him with downward perspective filling up the space between the heavens and the Earth this is the second site that Allah is mentioning with the prophet sallallahu alaih wasallam at where the tree which is the uppermost boundary of the heavens wasallam said that it was it its leaves were as big as the ears of an elephant and its colors were completely Indescribable always tell people subh Allah something very simple if you've ever snorkled or scuba dived and you see the colors at the bottom of the ocean you can't describe those colors with the spectrum that we have here what then of the colors at the highest Heavens Prophet said can't give you color can't tell you it was red or gold it's Indescribable colors of that tree and then the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam said that this was the point at which jel was stunned he was like flattened rug out of his awe of Allah subhana wa tala looking up and only the prophet wasallam will pass this boundary to be addressed by Allah subhana wa taala and Allah will speak to the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam directly was was the one spoken to directly by Allah on eartham is the one spoken to directly by Allah in the heavens so another Leverage another degree of favor that's given to Muhammad sallai wasallam Allah revealed to him what he revealed you see much of that conversation we don't have it right hate to break it to you but in your Salah that's not narrated that that was the conversation between the prophet and Allah we don't have much of what actually took place in this conversation between Allah and the messenger of Allah sallallah alaihi wasallam Allah revealed to him what he revealed this refers to according to and others the two that Allah revealed to the prophet directly not through the established means of what are those two aat the end of the two verses at the end ofah Bak okay and there is sign Subhan Allah that at this point he gave him that and we know he legislated to the Prophet wasallam The Prayer in that conversation the mandatory prayers Al 50 prayers in total were given to the prophet sallallahu alaih wasallam in that is sign as mentions the prayer is the Ascension of the believer Allah brought the prophet sallai wasallam to that highest point physically to give him the legislation of Salah and that's sign that the believer who wants to ascend by Soul ascends through their Salah to that direct conversation with with the lord of the mighty Throne okay so the legisl 50 prayers and the last two aat of Bak look at the irony Subhan Allah the last two ay of Bak part of it is that we don't have legislation from Allah that's beyond our scope that we don't have legislation burden like the burden of those who came before us but he's coming down with 50 prayers he meets on the way back the one who was spoken to by Allah on Earth spoken to by Allah in the heavens what happened with you Muhammad said Allah just legislated the Salah similar to didn't Allah tell him establish the prayer from my mention okay how much is it 50 prayers mam says not going to happen your will not be able to do it have have experience here I'm the prophet that came before you struggled with my for very long time 50 prayers is not going to work with them they're going to refuse it they're not going to be able to handle it yeah Muhammad Al wasallam now subh Allah in here shows you the beautiful Envy because if mam said here's my opportunity to take little bit of his followers off of him so my can be little bit more proportional to his maybe now we can be more no no mam says go back to your lord ask your lord to reduce the obligation maybe you and and by the way wasallam do you really think the prophet sallallahu alai wasallam had problem with praying 50 prayers no he loved to pray Comfort us with an he'd pray at night so no companion could stick with him Sall alhi wasallam not even they couldn't pray with him alhi wasallam because it was too long he loved his Salah 50 prayers for the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam not problem you think Abu Bak would have had problem with it you think mean so it's not him that he's talking about right but the so goes back to Allah asks Allah for for reduction comes back to 25 half of them 25 prayers musam says what happened he said he reduced it to 25 Alam said go back it's not going to work they need less so he goes back to Allah subh and he brought it back to 10 down to 10 prayers says not going to work some of the say that M's people had the obligation of seven prayers in total and they rejected it they lost their prayer right they lost the prayer said they can't do 10 go back the prophet went back and got five salaat said go back even mam said five prayers is lot right and the prophet alaihi wasallam Felt shy to go back to Allah and to ask for reduction in this regard and so it remained five prayers but Allah subhana wa ta'ala announced that the reward of 50 is maintained with five so when you pray your five prayers you're still getting the reward of praying 50 prayers but not with the burden of praying 50 prayers and Subhan Allah in that is characteristic of the prophets reduced the prayers for us through his advice to the prophet so we don't feel overburdened ibim Alam gave the prophet alhi wasallam advice for how to increase our rank in Paradise so we could realize more of shows you the way that the prophets are brothers to one another and then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam mentions that was shown Al was shown the Nations and he said Sall alhi wasallam saw some prophets that had one pro one follower some prophets with 10 some prophets with large number some prophets with no followers whatsoever subh Allah imagine you meet of Allah no followers no one followed them they were rejected by every one of their people then he said saw this large and said to is that mine and turned the prophet wasall to another that that he was looking at was the of who is so there are large number of the people of Jenna but he showed him another group and he said this is your and it was larger twice as large as the or or much larger than the of in this regard Subhan Allah so many things here number one the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam at this point only had handful of followers that's number one and this is who he seeing it's going to survive and remember Subhan Allah when the prophet met one person that would believe in him on the day of and it was Adas and Adas was from the town of NAA noo from at one point gave up and now the prophet was meeting from the land of unun and the prophet on the day of when came to him and he introduced to him not the heavens the angels of the heavens but the angel moves mountains so can crush them all the prophet said maybe their children will believe in Allah and now he's meeting those children who believed in Allah he's meeting those descendants who believed in Allah and in the context of because they can't destroy Al without destroying the people of and they have never been able to destroy the people of in that the prophet alaihi wasallam has the people of Gaz he has the the people of festine the people of Palestine and we were there when you say was there we were there when the prophet was looked at us as an umah with pride that that's my know need to wrap up but of the scenes that the prophet sallam sees also on his descent wasallam he smells sweet musk on that night of he say what is that what is that beautiful smell and says it is the hairdresser of the daughter of not ibrahim's you know trees not M's pouch not isam's hair an unknown woman who is the hairdresser of the daughter of huge lesson the most belittled people are usually the ones that are in the service industry if you will right you look past them the maids the servants the these these people who no one asks what their name is no one inquires about who they are people just walk past them you think they're insignificant wasn't that problem with the woman who used to clean the of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that they didn't want to wake the prophet up to go pray janaza on her and bury her it's just Human Condition right think about how insignificant on Earth the hairdresser of the daughter of is and what happened to her one day the prophet was smelling her musk meaning what she has in the heavens is incredible one day as she was combing the hair of the daughter of she dropped the comb and she said the daughter looked at her and said who Allah mean my dad says no talking about the Lord of your father and the daughter says you want me to tell tell him she said go ahead brings forth this woman says what did you say said who is there Lord besides me imagine the scene of This Woman This powerless vulnerable woman with no one to protect her in that moment looking at on his throne and says my Lord and your lord Allah prepares pit of fire and he burns each of her children in front of her think about the people of Subhan Allah the prophet met victim of genocide on the night of the all of her children one by one are thrown into that pit of fire in front of her now you go and Subhan Allah her one request and there's so much here so much wisdom here her one request was that the bones be gathered together that when my flesh is burnt off my body whatever is left of my bones be gathered with my children threw her into ditch of fire hoping that she would not be mentioned or remembered Allah is showing her to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in the highest heavens with the mention of the likes of ibraim and Musa and others Subhan Allah the flesh burnt off of her bones she wanted to be with her children when we talk about the people of Gaza disseminated broken up into pieces Allah subhana wa tala elevates and puts back new flesh and puts back more than what was taken the rot of genocide becomes the sweetness of the musk in Paradise of this woman and there's lesson here as well we've come to know may Allah have mercy on them all these incredible sh for every there are other that we will never know that were also genocided inaz who were just as beautiful with their smile just as regular and righteous in the Masjid who had just as much of painful interaction with their loved ones as they were bidding them farewell but we never caught them but Allah caught them and Allah saw them and Allah rewards accordingly and Subhan Allah in that La in that Miracle is is then proceeded with Surah is about miracles that happen to Ordinary People is about miracles that happen to prophets and so the prophet not the mirac the Miracles of the prophets and the Miracles of ordinary people on that night as well I'll end with this inshallah I'll save the the rest of this for for next week it's the return of the messenger of Allah sallallahu Al wasallam he saw on that night all of these incredible scenes he saw he saw paradise and hellfire he saw and he saw he saw the good the bad he saw all the Opposites but his faith is increased remember Jam poured more faith in his heart and wisdom in his heart and ibraim asked Allah to show him more so that he could increase in faith right so certainly seeing things right to hear of things is not like seeing things so now that he saw all these things it even is more addition to itat in terms of certainty but now he comes back to Jerusalem he gets on the once again Witham he makes his way back to mecah one of the narrations is that he even asks who's going to believe me with all of this says it's enough abak will believe you will believe you and that's where he gets his nickname the truthful one he will affirm you in this journey of yours sallallahu alaihi wasallam then he saysi wasallam got back to Mecca and when got got back to meca told the people what happened said wait what did you say Abu jahal is listening these people have been trying to discredit him Sall alaihi wasallam all these different things sorcerer liar what what did you say you went to Jerusalem came back last night hold on one second everybody come hear this out here what he's saying now we've been waiting to discredit him now we have it alhamdulillah we now have well they're not saying alhamdulillah but you get the sentiment we now have it we can discredit him Abu jahal everyone's calling him over listen to what he has to say and the prophet wasallam says can see myself in the in that chamber that area of andr is interrogating me and saying really what happened then and what happened then and they're getting such laugh out of this abak before the prophet could go tell Abu Bakr what happened the Islam phobes reached Abu beak first said did you hear what your friend said what did he say said he went to the heavens came back if he said it he's telling the truth wait what you're you're not you're smart manak you're not you're not troubled by this no absolutely not he is the truthful one sallallahu alaihi wasallam if believe that Allah speaks to him from above seven heavens of course believe that Allah can take him and bring him back in one night what's the big deal if he said it he's telling the truth which should be your reaction every time you read an islamophobes commentary when they say look at this Hadith first of all most of the time it's fabricated but if he said it he's telling the truth alaihi wasallam just don't understand it yet the prophet Salli wasallam says that was in the middle in Mecca and all these people are coming they started to ask me about things in Jerusalem that hadn't yet captured mean this was intense Journey for the prophet Salli wasallam he saw lot in that night and then you're asking him about the small details of what did that corner look like and what did that door look like people that came to came from Jerusalem before tell us about this tell us about that and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said felt such grief and never felt that grief never felt that type of grief before that anxiety when they were asking me then suddenly Allah raised Jerusalem for me in the courtyard of Mecca and was looking right at it every time they asked me something simply said this this this and that they asked for the fine details imagine the prophet sallai wasallam with his back to the Kaa and the people interrogating him about Jerusalem and the prophet is looking at in front of him and he's saying this is where this is this is where this is this is where this is this is where this is and suddenly they're going this is backfiring again every time we try to discredit him something happens and it backfires how does he know all this on top of that and others narr narr Prophet wasallam said that that saw caravan on my way back there was traveling Caravan that's coming on its way to Mecca and he said that they had water pot and the pot was covered he said descended drank from that water pot and covered it and he said and they lost one of their camels and he described alaihi wasallam the number of camels and the way that that Camel looked and he said alerted them to it that they heard Roar and this camel went running away alerted them to it and they went chasing after that Camel and they retrieved that Camel and put it back to their Caravan the prophet Salli wasall said ask them when they arrive in Mecca and when they arrived in Mecca they said exactly what the prophet Salli wasallam said that they had that number of camels and that there was that night and they heard voice they didn't know where it came from and there was some water that was missing from their jug and the prophet sallai wasallam was once again exonerated in all of this dear brothers and sisters inshallah with that we will go ahead and conclude and we will continue next week because the next time the prophet reaches Jerusalem it will be his letter calling the people to Allah and the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam we ask Allah subh to send his peace and blessings upon him and as he gave the prophet relief after hardship through that journey through Al may Allah subh give relief to the people of today and as he took the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam from the Earth to the heavens may Allah subhana take our sh from the Earth to the heavens in an instant and as he took the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to that momentous meeting with him may Allah subh allow us to be taken to meet him while he is pleased with us and as he gathered the prophet alaihi wasallam with the prophets may Allah gather us with the prophet sallam and with the and with the righteous Prophets