The seven heavens and the ascension

Israfil wrote: Well perhaps you can tell since Surah 17 (The Night Journey)refers to Muhammad whose is the servant of Allah. Obviously when this Surah was revealed to Muhammad it was also revealed along w ith his vision in the Night Journey. Now if you are you looking for specifics then I can list those as well.

We are looking for Islam's "prophets" name in this sura...

Where is it....?

Israfil wrote: Applie pie are you referring to Shu'aib?

No.

Tell us why you think sura 17 is referring to Islam's prophet, when his name is not even mentioned anywhere in the entire sura...

Thanks...

Salaam,

Here is my response to you Deus:

First we should note that the sacred mosque was the the Qibla which was Makkah, which was aforetime Jerusalem but since the fall out with the Jews it was told that the Qibla which one prays now is Makkah. Beit-ullah which is the Kabbah or which surrounds it is the sacred mosque. The fasrthest mosque in which the Night Journey speaks of is the damaged temple which is in Jerusalem.

How we know about the Sacred mosque is:

It is reported that the Prophet Muhammad said, "There are only three mosques to which you should embark on a journey: the sacred mosque (Mecca, Saudi Arabia), this mosque of mine (Madinah, Saudi Arabia), and the mosque of Al-Aqsa (Jerusalem)."

Also another Islamic website offers this:

The Arab grammarians classify masjid as "ism makan", i.e., "name of location"; it indicates the place where an action takes place. Masjid being derived from the root sa-ja-da (to prostrate), it means "place of prostration". Since a place of worship is a place where believers prostrate to God, "masjid" is a general term to designate any place of worship without any religious distinction. Later, this word was used to designate Islamic places of worship in particular, i.e., the mosques.

The Prophet's^(P) night journey was from "the inviolable place of worship" (al-Masjid al-Haram) to "the farthest place of worship" (al-Masjid al-Aqsa). The former is certainly located in Makkah, but what about the latter? The reference to Allah blessing its surroundings (... whose precincts We did bless) suggests a location in the "Holy Land" (cf. 21:81; 7:137; 34:18). Neal Robinson states:

The [Muslim] tradition which identifies it [i.e., al-Masjid al-Aqsa] with the Temple Mount in Jerusalem makes admirable sense in view of the fact that the 'place of worship' (masjid) whose destruction is evoked in v. 7 [i.e., 17:7] is clearly the Temple.^[2]