Mehraj-Idrak

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Shabe mehraj

{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.”

Abu Muhammad al-Baghawi (d. 510 H.) said: “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))

Imam Allama Ahmad Qastalaani (Ra) states in Mawahibul-Ladunniyya and Man’hi-Muhammadiyya, and Allama Muhammad Zarqaani(Ra) in its Shar’ha state:

…….ALLAH Spoke to His Beloved (ﷺ) in those high Divine regions which was above all possibilities and imaginations.

…. The truth is that there was one Isra and an entire journey from Musjid-e-Haraam to the Arsh was physical and in wakefulness. This is the Madhab of the majority of Ulama, Muhaditheen, Fuqaha and Mutakallimeen. 

…..There were ten Meh’raajs and the tenth was till the Arsh. 

…It is reported in Sahih Al-Bukhari by Sayyiduna Anas ibne Maalik that the beloved Rasool of Allah (ﷺ) said, “Jibra’eel proceeded with me till the Sidratul-Muntaha. Then, the Divine Power of the Almighty Lord drew me to a distance of two bows close to Him, in fact, even closer”. This closeness was above the Arsh as mentioned in the Hadith-e-Shareef.

Allama Shi’haab Khafaji (Ra), in his Naseemur-Riyaad Sharha Shifa Imam Qaadi Ayaad (Ra), states:

……when the Master (ﷺ) reached Sidratul-Muntaha then, Sayyiduna Jibra’eel presented the Rafraf, which carried him to the Arsh. 
…. the Master (ﷺ) visited Jannah and the Arsh or the boundaries of that region beyond which lies the extra-terrestrial domain (La-Makaan). This all happened physically and in wakefulness.

Abdul Wahhab Sha’raani (Ra), in his Al-Yuwaqeet wal Jawahir, quotes from Sheikh-e-Akbar (Ra) that:……..”And until that time when I was elevated to the Divine Levels” reflects to the fact that the termination of the physical feet’s journey was at the Sacred Arsh.

Reference Books:Al-Khasaisal Kubra, Vol 1, Page 316-349 by Jalaluddin Suyooti (ra)

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