📚 Mi’raj of Muhammad (SAW): A Physical or Spiritual experience?
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad AS explains:
❌Dream ❌Earthly body
✅Kashf ✅ New Body
“The Mi’raj occurred with a body that was not this decaying, transient existence, but rather an extremely subtle and Noorani-
-existence. How many misconceptions should be corrected? Bukhari has clearly written ‘ثُمَّ اسْتَيْقَظ’ meaning ‘then he awoke’. Now tell me, how can we accept that it was the same body? My experience is that pious people receive a Noorani existence.
Remember! There is-
lham, and there is also a Ru’ya and Kashf. Kashf is superior to Ru’ya. The person of Kashf knows he is in another place and can hear others’ voices. The noble Sufis affirm that Allah’s saints receive a Noorani body, and sometimes others can even see it…
Remember well that-this [body] was not present during the Mi’raj, but rather it was another existence entirely. Through this, a person can even meet the deceased, and an example to some extent exists in dreams – where a person’s physical body remains on the bed, but there are eyes with which one-
sees and feet with which one walks. For this reason, dreams are called the sister of death, as they provide some understanding of that realm.
When Bukhari writes ‘ثُمَّ اسْتَیْقَظَ’ and Hazrat Ayesha Siddiqah’s RA belief is the same, what right do we have to present something-
different? It appears the companions believed that the Prophet’s Mi’raj did not occur with this existence, but with another Noorani existence, otherwise, they would have created an uproar against Hazrat Ayesha’s RA stance.”