Isra’ is referred to in the first verse of the 17th chapter...

Isra’ is referred to in the first verse of the 17th chapter of Al-Qur’an al-Majid as follows: Glory to God who did take His slave for a journey by night from the sacred mosque to the farthest mosque whose precincts We did bless, in order that We might show him some of Our signs: for He is One who heareth and seeth all things.

Isra’ and Me’raj took place on the night of the 27th of Rajab (the seventh month of the Islamic calendar) of the twelfth year of the Proclamation, i.e., one year before the Migration of the Prophet from…