Surah Al Isra' (Bani Israel) Ayat 1. Daily Qur'an & Hadith
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[17].Surah Al-Isra' [The Journey By Night] also called as Surah Bani Israel [The Children of Israel]
Ayat 1. Glorified (and Exalted) be He (Allah) [above all that (evil) they associate with Him] Who took His slave (Muhammad 
[SAWW](PBUH) for a journey by night from Al-Masjid-al-Haram (at Makkah) to the farthest mosque (in Jerusalem), the neighborhood whereof We have blessed, in order that We might show him (Muhammad 
[SAWW](PBUH) of Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, lessons, signs, etc.). Verily, He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer.
Tafseer of Surah Al Isra' (The Night Journey) or Bani Israel (The Children of Israel) Ayat 1. Glory to ((Allah)) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless,- in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things). The reference is to the Miraj for which see the Introduction to this Surah. Masjid is a place of prayer: here it refers to the Kab’ah at Makkah. It had not yet been cleared of its idols and rededicated exclusively to the One True God. It was symbolical of the new Message which was being given to mankind. The Farthest Mosque must refer to the site of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem on the hill of Moriah, at or near which stands the Dome of the Rock. This and the Mosque known as the Farthest Mosque (al Masjid al Aqsa) were completed by the Amir 'Abd al Malik in A.H. 68. Farthest, because it was the place of worship farthest west which was known to the Arabs in the time of the Prophet: it was a sacred place to both Jews and Christians, but the Christians then had the upper hand, as it was included in the Byzantine (Roman) Empire, which maintained a Patriarch at Jerusalem. The chief dates in connection with the Temple are: it was finished by Solomon about B.C. 1004; destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar about 586 B.C.; rebuilt under Ezra and Nehemiah about 515 B.C.; turned into a heathen idol-temple by one of Alexander's successors, Antiochus Epiphanes, 167 B.C.; restored by Herod, B.C. 17 to A.C. 29; and completely razed to the ground by the Emperor Titus in A.C. 70. These ups and downs are among the greater Signs in religious history. Allah's knowledge comprehends all things, without any curtain of Time or any separation of Space. He can therefore see and hear all things, and the Miraj; was a reflection of this knowledge without Time or Space. In this and the subsequent verses, the reference to Allah is generally in the first person and plural. But in the first and the last clause of this verse it is in the third person singular: "Glory to Allah, Who did take His Servant. . .", "He is the One". In each of these two instances, the clause expresses the point of view of Allah's creatures, who glorify Him, and whose hearing and seeing are ordinarily so limited that they can do nothing but glorify Him when one of His creatures is raised up to
hear and see the Mysteries. It is they who glorify Him.
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English Translation of Hadith
Hazrat Abdullah bin Masud (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: I can still recall as if I am seeing the Messenger of Allah 
[SAWW](PBUH) "When the people of Quraysh did not believe me (i.e. the story of my "MIRAJ" Night Journey), I stood up in Al-Hatim (Al-Hijr- the roof less part of Kaaba) and Allah displayed Jerusalem in front of me, and I began describing it to them while I was looking at it."
[Al-Bukhari Book 05, Chapter 58, Hadith # 226].
Lesson : as mentioned above in Surah Al-Isra Ayat 01. for a journey by night from Al-Masjid-al-Haram (at Makkah) to the farthest mosque (in Jerusalem), Quran and Hadith highlight the journey of "MIRAJ" which reveal conditions of various communities that were shown to the Prophet (PBUH), he had witnessed them in the event of Isra (the Night Journey).
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