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The Myth of Isra and Mi'raj - Why did the Prophet ask Moses alone out of all the prophets and messengers? The Myth of Isra and Mi'raj - Why did the Prophet ask Moses alone out of all the prophets and messengers? The Myth of Isra and Mi'raj - Why did the Prophet ask Moses alone out of all the prophets and messengers? The Isra and Mi'raj is an event that took place at night in the year 621 AD, between the eleventh and twelfth year of the prophetic mission. Muslims consider it one of the miracles of the Prophet Muhammad, and one of the most prominent events in the history of the Islamic call. Muslims believe that Allah took his Prophet Muhammad on Buraq with Gabriel at night from the Sacred Mosque in Mecca to Jerusalem. It was a journey that the Quraysh tribe found so strange that some of them began to clap and whistle in mockery, but the Prophet Muhammad insisted on confirming it and that he then moved from Jerusalem on a heavenly journey accompanied by Gabriel on a beast called Buraq, or according to Islamic expression, he ascended to the highest assembly at Sidrat al-Muntaha, meaning the furthest place that can be reached in the sky, and then returned on the same night. Surah Al-Isra’ was named after the event, which begins with the Almighty’s saying: “Glory be to Him who took His servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him some of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing.” [Al-Isra’: 1]