{"id":26476,"date":"2026-08-21T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=26476"},"modified":"2026-10-10T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:24:37","slug":"the-miraaj-in-detail-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=26476","title":{"rendered":"The Mi\u2019raaj in Detail \u2013 Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23497\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/kabah6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/kabah6.jpg 720w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/kabah6-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After Hazrat Jibreel (\u2018alaihis salaam) and Hazrat Meekaa\u2019eel (\u2018alaihis salaam) washed the blessed heart of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) with Zam-Zam and placed the seal of prophethood between his blessed shoulders, the Buraaq was brought.<\/p>\n<p>The Buraaq is a heavenly animal which is slightly smaller than a mule in size, but slightly bigger than a donkey. It is white in color and moves extremely swiftly. Such is its speed that in a single step, it travels as far as the eye can see.<\/p>\n<p>When Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) sat on the Buraaq then it became slightly rough in its movement. Hazrat Jibreel (\u2018alaihis salaam) addressed it saying, \u201cO Buraaq! Are you becoming rough while Muhammed (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) rides upon you? Until today, there is no servant of Allah Ta\u2018ala who sat on your back who is greater and more honored than Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam)!\u201d Hearing this, the Buraaq began to perspire out of shame and embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>The Buraaq then departed with Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) while Hazrat Jibreel (\u2018alaihis salaam) and Hazrat Meekaa\u2019eel (\u2018alaihis salaam) were accompanying him on the journey. This is the honor and splendor with which Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) commenced the journey of Mi\u2019raaj from Makkah Mukarramah.<\/p>\n<p>According to some narrations, after Hazrat Jibreel (\u2018alaihis salaam) made Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) sit on the Buraaq, he also mounted the Buraaq and sat behind Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam).<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>(Extracted from Seeratul Mustafa 1\/291)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Hazrat Jibreel (\u2018alaihis salaam) and Hazrat Meekaa\u2019eel (\u2018alaihis salaam) washed the blessed heart of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) with Zam-Zam and placed the seal of prophethood between his blessed shoulders, the Buraaq was brought. The Buraaq is a heavenly animal which is slightly smaller than a mule in size, but slightly bigger than a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930,866,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-israa-and-miraaj","category-seerah-2","category-seerah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26543,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476\/revisions\/26543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}