...various travellers ascertained that they on this very night distinctly saw the moon in two parts.2 Some, however, refer the passage to the future, as...wonderful things the Prophet saw and did on this eventful night;3 but some maintain that it was only a vision, and quote the words, "We ordained the vision which...

...based on a dream which Mohammed himself relates in the Koran, Sura 17, entitled The Niyhl Journey: "Glory be to Him who carried his servant by night...from the sacred temple of Mecca to the temple that is remote" [te in Jerusalem]. In the Dome of the Rock on Mount Moriali, the hand-prints of the angel Gabriel...

...Qod, if Ho please, will enrich you of .His abundance : for God is Knowing, Wise." Surah xvii. 1 : " Glory be to Him who carried his servant by night from the Sacred Mosque to the temple that is more remote (ie Jerusalem), whose precinct we have blessed, that we might...

...the Glory of Him who transported His servant by night from the Sacred Temple to the Remote Temple, whose precinct We have blessed, that We might show him of Our signs." — xvii. i. ud-Dln. So he arose and came to the palace and shook hands with the king and sat down....

...and from here caused him to ascend up into Heaven, even as is advened to in the words of the Kurin: Glory be to Him who carried His servant by night from the Masjid al Haram (the sacred Mosque at Makkah) to the Masjid al Aksa (the Mosque that is more Remote...

...Mecca. The chapter, or Sura, in which this occurs, reads thus : " Praise be unto him who transported his servant by night from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem; the circuit of which we have blessed, that we might show him some -of...

...'lbasir." " I declare the glory of Him who transported His servant by night from the sacred temple to the temple that is more remote, whose precinct...we have blessed that we might show him of our signs ! He verily is the Hearer, the Beholder." KURAN, chap. xvii. •' Subhast, saqia, qadahe pur sharab...

...his divine 1 The 17th chapter of the Koran opens with the words, ' Praise be unto him who transported his servant by night from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem ', ' from whence ', as Sale observes, ' he was carried through the seven...

...traditions crystallised by Al Bokharil, but there is one short mention of it in the Kuran, Sura xviii. " Glory be to him who carried his servant by night from...temple of Mecca to the temple that is more remote, ie Jerusalem." The vision, however, looms so large in his followers' minds, and exercised so profound...

...NIGHT-JOURNEY; REVEALED AT MECCA IN THE .N AM K OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD Praise be unto him, who transported his servant by night, from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem, 1 the circuit of which we have blessed, that we might show him some of...