Abstract

The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s Night Journey has been presented in the light of the Quran and Hadith and science. The Qur’anic verses and hadith pieces have been explored to estimate the work pace of angels in nanosecond to picosecond time scales. Limitations on the human’s senses of sight, hearing, touch, and physical response times have been pointed out. The Quranic verses and the Hadith pieces supporting prophets’ exceptional senses of sight and hearing have been mentioned. Also, the Qur’anic verses indicating almighty god’s power of turning the dead alive have been referred to. The uniformly speedy carrier Buraq played as an ideal inertial carrier of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity in physics allowing relativistic effects of distance contraction and time dilation to take place. The reenforcement of the relativistic effects has been shown to appear in the case of the muon dilema. It is found that the journey and its preparation fell within the time lag of physical feelings eliminating the use of anesthetics, spacesuits, oxygen, and care against physical tearing out. The significance of this article is to bring to light that all knowledge comes down from the all-Knowing God and that the end product of human research for the true knowledge does not clash with divine knowledge.

Keywords Angels; Buraq; Electromagnetic radiation; Infrasonic; Nanoseconds; Qaaba; Al-Aqsa masjid; Distance contraction; Muon dilema; Radiation belts; Heating at atmospheric re-entry