The Journey Of Miraj
Not a scholar but the way I see is since Meraj is a dream according to Ghamidi sahab so there is symbolism in Meraj. I am confused about the depiction of people being in skies in the meraj narration(like 5th heaven and so forth) So the following is how I see it. Just like Yusuf a.s sees 11 celestial objects,sun,moon bowing down in dream. I think the symbolism of dreams is usually according to what people are familair with, yanee their culture. I mean in our culture and age we see in cartoons, dad asks child “where is Grandpa” and then child points at the sky or some star. I think this is why those celestial objects were the symbols that Yusuf a.s saw in his dream. Ghamidi sahab says “khwab mai cheezain dramatise karkai nazar atee” yanee characters aur tamtheel kee surat. 1-I have heard narrations about Prophet muhamad meeting other prophets in bait al maqdis. I think since bait al maqdis is the place of bani israel, thats where all other prophets of bani israel were from. Yaqoob,Yusuf,Musa,Eesa. Ghamidi sahab says woh ilaqa bani israel kai liyay khaas. So it makes sense to see bait al maqdis in this manner in dream with prophets of that place. The only thing that can explain this is meraj was a dream, if it wasnt then how could dead people be met. 2-I have heard Meraj narrations of hazrat adam being in some level of heaven/sky. To see prophets ancestors, like Hazrat Adam in sky as part of the dream also makes sense. I remember seeing in TV children pointing at sky to say grandpa or father is there. One might hear such things in songs in poetry as well. Since its a dream so that is how things will be depicted imho. 3-Not sure about buraq. I mean given people were familiar with such stuff which Ahmed Shoaib mentioned, then one can argue, that such thing appear in dream as a symbolism to dramatise/symbolise a journey accross the universe? I searched on sunnahcom https://sunnah.com/search?q=winged+horse and it seems from the narrations that even prophet muhamad was surprised and laughed at idea of horse with wings. Though how truthful are the stories of winged horse of Sulaiman a.s mentioned in the narrations? Other narrations mentioned curtains of winged horse. So stories about winged horses had existed, not sure if people saw that as just culture or believed in them? 4-People call hazrat musa kaleemullah. Not sure about accuracy of 50 namaz meraj narrations. But for hazrat Musa to be depicted in dream as someone who asks Allah on behalf of Prophet makes sense. I see it as since hazrat Musa is kaleemullah so he is depicted in this manner.