Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 451
9 May 1908 451 1 تُـحَرِّك ُ أَبْوَابَـھَا. تُـحَرِّك ُ أَبْوَابَـھَا. [‘A time will come upon Hell when no one will be in it and the fluttering wind will be striking its doors’]. Now, look how pure the canons and creeds are that Islam has taught the Muslims regarding Heaven and Hell in which there isn’t so much as an atom’s weight of injustice, with principles of the highest purity, truth, and wisdom that limit punishment up to a specified term. Subsequent to this, deliverance will be granted because God Himself is ultimately the Creator of human nature and faculties. No sound mind nor conscience can ever accept that the sin of a frail and feeble mortal would be deemed so great that it would never be forgiven. The Truth about the Mi’raj The other issue is of the Mi’raj [Spiritual Ascension]. Without a doubt, we also believe that the Holy Prophet s as journeyed with his body. It was both in a state of wakefulness and with body, but this was a visionary state of the most glorious degree. For proof of this, look in S a hih al-Bukh a r i that after recording the entire incident it is written 2 َ ْقَظ ی ثُم َّ اسْتَ َ ْقَظ ی ثُم َّ اسْتَ [‘Then he woke up’]. Well, what does this mean? It was the narration of Hazrat Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her, who had the opportunity of living with the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, for a very 1. In one narration, this hadith is recorded as follows: ِ یَأْتِی ْ عَلٰی جَھَنَّم َ یَوْم ٌ مَافِیْھَامِن ِ َیَأْتِی ْ عَلٰی جَھَنَّم َ یَوْم ٌ مَافِیْھَامِن َأَنَّھَا أَبْوَاب ُ الْمُوَحِّدِیْن ك َاٰدَم َ أَحَد ٌ تُصْفَق ُ أَبْوَابُھَا َأَنَّھَا أَبْوَاب ُ الْمُوَحِّدِیْن ك ِابْن ِ اٰدَم َ أَحَد ٌ تُصْفَق ُ أَبْوَابُھَا ابْن R uh ul-Ma‘ a n i f i Tafs i ril-Qur’ a n al-‘A zi m was-Sab‘ i l-Math a n i, by Shihab-ud-Din Mahmood bin Abdullah al-Husaini al-Alusi, S u rah H u d, 108, Juzw 11, p. 470. [Publisher] 2. S a hih al-Bukh a r i , Kit a but-Tau hi d, B a b wa Kallamall a hu M u s a Takl i m a , Hadith 7517 [Publisher]