Part 1
– Muhammad’s Night Journey to the Jewish Temple Mount
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| Muhammad's Flight Plan |
Twelve
years after Muhammad became a prophet he said that he was physically
transported through the sky 775 miles from Mecca to Jerusalem and back again in
one night on his winged steed, Al-Borak. [Likewise,
when I was a child, I believed that there was a man with a beard who could travel
right around the world in one night on a sleigh pulled by magic reindeer.]
This
particular story of Muhammad’s Night Journey (Lailat-al-Miraj) is taken from The Life of Mohamet written in 1697 by Humphrey Prideaux and reprinted in 1808. Undeniably the older a book written about Islam the
more clear the information since it would have been written closer in time to
actual events and during an era when no political correctness existed. This
book was typeset in old English therefore the following is “translated” into
more readable English for ease of understanding.
