[41] Allâhu ta’âlâ.
[42] Telling about the Messenger of Allah.
[43] Allâhu ta’âlâ.
[44] The Master of Worlds, i.e. the Messenger of Allah
[45] Direction where to a Muslim turns his face during namâz; Kâ’ba.
[46] Allâhu ta’âlâ.
[47] The word used in the original text is fayz (or faidh), which means occult, inexplicable, invisible rays of spiritual knowledge which the blessed heart of the Messenger of Allah radiates continuously, and which will be radiated as long as life on earth continues. If a Muslim adapts himself perfectly to the teachings of the Qur’ân al-kerîm and to the Islamic principles of behaviour taught by the Messenger of Allah, which in turn can be learned from those true Islamic scholars called the Ahl as-sunna(t) wa-l-jamâ’a(t), or from their books, the heart of that fortunate Muslim begins to receive those spiritual rays. The flavour enjoyed while receiving these rays cannot be described to a person who has not tasted them yet. One day, Huseyn Hilmi Işık Efendi, the master of the humble translator of this book, said, “If a person has never eaten honey, of how much help could the taste of jam be in describing honey to him?”
[48] The Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’.
[49] Sidra-t-ul-muhtahâ: a tree in the sixth sky. No creature, except for our Prophet‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’, has gone farther above the Sidra-t-ul-muntahâ. One year before the Hijrat (Hegira), when our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ was fifty-two years old, on the twenty-sixth night of the blessed month of Rajab (on the night between the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh days), the Archangel Jebrâîl (Gabriel) ‘alaihis-salâm’ took the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ to the Ka’ba, where an unknown person cleaved his chest, took out his heart, washed it with Zamzam water, and put it back in its place. Then the Prophet and the Angel mounted a Paradise animal called Burak and rode to the Mesjîd-i-Aqsâ in Jerusalem, which took them only a moment, thence ascended to the sixth sky, in one moment again. When they came to the Sidra-t-ul-muntahâ, Jebrâîl ‘alaihis-salâm’ said he could not go any further, for he would be burnt into ashes if he did. The Prophet went on alone. He went beyond the Sidra and beyond the Arsh, and entered Paradise. He saw Allâhu ta’âlâ in an ineffable, incomprehensible, inexplicable manner, without time and without direction. Then he was taken back to the earth. This ascent of the Messenger of Allah is called Mi’râj. Muslims celebrate this blessed event yearly on the twenty-sixth night of the blessed month of Rajab.