Ismaili Concept | Shab-e-Mi'raaj ki Haqiqat aur Afadiyat
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- The Qur’an mentions the Night Journey of Prophet Muhammadⁿ as follows:
“Glory be to Him Who made His servant to go by night from the sacred masjid (al-masjid al-haram) to the farthest masjid (al-masjid al-aqsa) of which We have blessed the precincts, so that We may show to him some of Our signs.”
سُبْحَــانَ الَّذِىٰ أَسْرَىٰ بِعْبْدِهِٕ لَيْلًا مِّنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَـــا الَّذِىٰ بَــــارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُــــ لِنُرِيَهُ مِّنْ آيَاتِنَاَ إِنَهُ هُـوَ الْسَّمِيْعُ الْبَصِيْرُ.”
(Holy Qur’an 17:1)
Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III explained the deeper meaning of the Mi‘raj:
“You must have also heard about the Mi‘raj (the celestial ascent) of the Holy Prophet. People say that he rode on a horse up to the heavens and that that was his Mi‘raj. This is the foolish idea of the masses. God does not dwell only in heaven; He is to be found everywhere. The night of Mi‘raj is the one on which the Prophet revisited his original abode. Only the wise and the intelligent will understand the parables of the prophets. The unintelligent ones will take stories at their face value.”
(Dar-es-Salaam, September 29, 1899)
Esoteric Guidance from Mawlana Hazar Imam
Mawlana Hazar Imam emphasized the importance of understanding the esoteric meaning of specific parts of the Qur’an:
“It is important that if you recite or know parts of the Qur’an, you should be able to explain their meaning. Do not forget that our branch of Islam is an esoteric branch of Islam. Esoteric means that what is written is there, but its meaning is not there to everyone. It is there only to those who are part of our Jamat. And it is important, therefore, that if you learn parts of the Quran, you should be able to explain the esoteric meaning of those parts.”
(Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni, Bombay, November 22, 1967)
Explanation by Imam al-Mu‘izz
In the Fatimid book Kitab Ta’wil al-Shari‘ah, al-Qadi al-Nu‘man (d. 974) records that a man once asked Hazrat Imam al-Mu‘izz⁽ᵈ⁾ (the 14th Ismaili Imam and 4th Fatimid Imam-Caliph) to explain the Prophet’s Night Journey. The questioner specifically inquired about the true meaning of the Prophet’s journey from the “sacred place of prostration” (al-masjid al-haram) to the “farthest place of prostration” (al-masjid al-aqsa), as mentioned in Qur’an 17:1:
“The Sacred Mosque (al-masjid al-haram) is the [Universal] Soul (nafs) and the Farthest Mosque (al-masjid al-aqsa) is the [Universal] Intellect (‘aql).”
(Imam al-Mu‘izz li-Dīn Allāh, Ta’wil al-Shari‘ah, ed. Nadia Eboo-Jamal, 5:37)
The Ismaili ta’wil (spiritual interpretation) reveals that the Prophet’s Night Journey was not a physical or bodily journey from Mecca to Jerusalem. Instead, it symbolizes the Prophet’s spiritual ascent through the Universal Intellect (‘aql al-kull) and the Universal Soul (nafs al-kull). In Ismaili theology, these represent God’s two greatest creations, through which all existence is created and sustained.
Insights from Sayyidna Nasir-i Khusraw
Nasir-i Khusraw (d. after 1070), the eminent Ismaili hujjah of the Imam, elaborates on the metaphysical importance of the Universal Intellect and Universal Soul:
“The return of humankind is to the [Universal] Intellect, and the judgment (reckoning) of the human being has become necessary because of the Intellect. Do you not realize that there is no reckoning (judgment) promised for other animals who lack a share of the intellect? The [Universal] Soul is the effect of the [Universal] Intellect and the subsistence of every effect is due to its own cause. The subsistence of the particular souls is through the Universal Soul. Thus, the particular souls must return to their Universal [Soul] and that Universal [Soul] must return to the [Universal] Intellect because of whom it [i.e., the Universal Soul] exists. As God said: ‘Verily, to Us is their return and upon Us is their reckoning’ (Qur’an 88:25-26). These two are the hierarchical ranks (darajat) towards God, the Exalted.”
(Nasir-i Khusraw, Zad al-Musafir, Tehran: Miras-i Maktub 2015, 177-178)
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