Dendan Setia (Nins) on Nostr: Today is the day of the Night Journey, when the Prophet Muhammad is said to spend a ...

Today is the day of the Night Journey, when the Prophet Muhammad is said to spend a night of miracles on the Buraq (a winged horse) visiting Al-Aqsa mosque and meeting the other prophets including Moses there but also as he ascended to heaven. Supposedly that's when he got the divine discount (based on Moses's advice) to reduce the number of daily prayers to five. To this day I have no idea how fifty was the opening number of prayers. Google cannot confirm for me which Jewish or Christian sect have that number of prayers (my personal theory) but it's one of those mysteries like how Muslims believed Abraham sacrificed Ishmael instead.

Wouldn't recommend anyone try to recreate any part of isra' today tho - you might get hit by an Israeli airstrike. Then again Muslims have been blocked from doing mass prayers at the mosque in the last four months, so, bigger problems eh. #Islam #Palestine