Mehraj-Ruyah

“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)

Shabe mehraj

Al-Idrak is encompassment and Ru’yah is looking

{No vision can grasp Him, but He grasps all vision} [6:103]
A group from the Pious Salaf explained this ayah to mean: The seeing of Allah Azza wa Jal in this world (in dunya) :

Uthman Ad-Darimi (d. 280 H.) : «So it is said to this Merrisi (the heretic) : “You read the book of Allah and your heart is inattentive in what is recited to you. Do you not see that the companions of Musa begged Musa to see Allah in this world (dunya) and said {“O Mûsâ (Moses)! We shall never believe in you until we see Allâh plainly.”}[2:55], and didn’t say “until we see Allah in the hereafter” but in this world, and Allah has said: {No vision grasps Him} meaning the vision of the people of this world. And if they had asked him (Musa) to see Him in the Hereafter, like the companions of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they wouldn’t have been hit with a thunder-bolt, and he wouldn’t have told them except what Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to his companions, when they asked him: “Do we see our Lord on the day of Judgement ?” so he said: ”yes, you will not be harmed in seeing Him“.»( Naqd Ad-Darimi ‘Ala Bishr Al-Mirrisi (1/366-367))

“Al-Idrak” in the ayah [6:103] to mean: encompassment, meaning that the sight does not encompass Allah Azza wa Jal, though it sees Him on the day of judgment.

Abu Bakr Al-Ajurri (d. 360 H.) : If someone said: ‘What is the interpretation of His (Allah) saying: {No vision grasps Him}?’, it is said to him: According to the people of knowledge, it means: Visions do not surround Him, nor encompass Him -Azza wa Jal-, and they see him without encompassment, and they do not doubt seeing Him, as a man would say: ‘I have seen the sky’, and he is truthful, and his sight did not encompass the whole sky.” (“As-Shari’ah” (2/1048))

Ibn Hibban (d. 354 H.) said in his “sahih”: ….. for Al-Idrak is encompassment, and Ru’yah is looking, and Allah is seen and not encompassed.”

…. “Know that Idrak is not the same as ru’yah, because al-Idrak is: to reach the end/extreme limit of something, and encompass it, and ru’yah is to see with the eye. And ru’yah can be without encompassement.” (“Ma’alim At-Tanzil” by Al-Baghawi (3/174))

Ibn Abbas (ra) said that Muhammad (salallaho alaihi wasalam) saw his Lord, (Ikrama) asked: Hasn’t Allah said that Eyes cannot “COMPREHEND” him, at this (Ibn Abbas) replied: Strange that you have not understood, this is when Allah shows glimpse of his own Nur (which cannot be comprehended), so Prophet (saw) saw Allah twice [Sunnan Tirimdh, Tafsir of Surah al-Najm, Hadith No. 3201]

Ikramah reported that Ibn Abbas (Ra) said: “Sayyedena Muhammad (ﷺ) saw his Lord.” Someone asked him Hasn’t Allah said that Eyes cannot “COMPREHEND” him, at this ‘Ikramah replied to the person: Can you see the sky? He replied: Yes I can. Ikramah Said: Can you “COMPREHEND’ it?

(by which he means one can have sight of Allah but cannot comprehend it and it is interpretation of verse that “Eyes cannot “COMPREHEND” him”)[Tafseer Dur Al Manthur- Imam Suyuti]

Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas: The Prophet embraced me and said, “O Allah! Teach him (the knowledge of) the Book (Quran).”(bukhari)

.……..but the Madhab of vast majority of Mufasireen (including Ibn Abbas) is that Prophet (saw) saw Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’la [Sharah Sahih Muslim by Imam Nawawi, under Kitab al Iman, The mention of Sidra til Muntaha, Hadith No. 254]

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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