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It is evident from the Holy Quran and the other
three books which have come to us through revelation that man has no prestige
or status of his own. Allah tells us:-
‘You listen through My hearing, see through My
sight, think through My thought. Your coming
is from Us and to Us you will return. Allah encircles
everything. He is the Beginning, and
He is the End. He is the Manifested, and He is the Hidden. Where you are one, the second is Allah. Where you are two, the third is Allah.
It is Allah who gives birth to you,
and provides the sources for your upbringing after birth, and it is Allah
who provides you with food without account’
Every
prophet devised a programme for his descendants by the order of Allah. All
these programmes have the same fundamental aim which is to establish a link between
man and Allah. The prophets have told us that Allah has created us so that we
get to know Allah and form a mental link with
Him that stays firm and established. May we lay down our life for our beloved Prophet who has determined a method in the form of Salāt in order to form a link with Allah. As we have
already emphasised previously, by contemplating upon Prayer it becomes very clear that Prayer contains all life's movements and
actions. Even though these movements and actions are related to the physical
body, the actual purpose of them is to
witness Allah and attain intimate knowledge of
Allah.
KHWAJA SHAMSUDDIN AZEEMI
Mehrāj means to enter the world of the unseen. When a believer attains Mehrāj through prayer, Angels appear in front of him. He travels through the Heavens, and through the blessings of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) he comes to know his Lord.
