The Advent of the Promised Messiah — Page 50
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 50 be upon him, nor any other Prophet, there was no need to make the above statement about them. Abdullah and Aminah, the parents of our Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had always been held in high esteem, and no one had ever entertained any sort of mistrust and suspicion about them. Testimony is required only to exonerate a person who falls into the clutches of a lawsuit, but as for one who is free from the grip of litigation, no such testimony is required. Similarly, there is another error that has crept into the Muslims and it relates to the Mi’raj. 1 We believe that the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, experienced the Mi’raj, but it is wrong to believe, as some people do, that this was nothing more than an ordinary dream. Likewise, it is false to believe that the Holy Prophet went to heaven with his physical body. The true and correct belief is that the Mi’raj was a kind of vision, experienced with a body made of light. There was a body, but it was spiritual; there was a state of wakefulness, but spiritual, in the form of a vision. This 1 A spiritual experience of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, in which he travelled to the heavens. [Publisher]