THE PROPHET’S NIGHT JOURNEY and ASCENT / LAILAT UL ISRA WA-L-MIRAJ

06 January

Muslim

This marks the night journey of the Prophet Muhammad through the heavens to the presence of God, when the command that Muslims should pray five times a day was given to the Prophet. The rock from which the Prophet ascended is now in Jerusalem’s ‘Dome of the Rock’.  Muslims mark this night by reading the Qur’an and saying additional prayers.