10 The Zumurrud claims that Muhammad’s night journey from the Holy City
to Jerusalem was not a miracle because these two cities were close enough together
so that a person could go from one to the other and back in one night.
Muslim scholars have rejected the authenticity of the Zumurrud because of
statements like this. However, if the original Holy City of Islam was in fact
Petra, this description would have been absolutely correct. The distance from
Petra to Jerusalem is only 100 miles. While it would be a strenuous trip on a
horse, one could indeed travel from one to the other and back in one day.
You seem to be trying to turn Muhammad's fantasy into a literal trip, but I don't think you will be well served by that because:
1. He didn't take a horse. He took a baraq, which is the same type of mythical flying animal that the mythical prophet of the Zoroastrians used to visit the mythical place where his immortal ancestors were supposed to have dwelt.
2. You completely ignored the second leg up to "paradise", that he was supposed to have launched off of the rock in the dome of the rock from. How many miles is it to heaven on a flying donkey-mule?
http://www.petewaldo.com/muhammads_night_journey.htmLet alone that Aisha testified that she was next to him all night.
http://www.petewaldo.com/muhammads_night_journey.htm#aisha_on_night_journeyWhich ends the only connection the
religion of Islam would have had to any part of THE Holy Land and thus reduces it to nothing more than the morally bankrupt and purely reprobate imperialistic conquest thereof by Muhammad's followers.
Years
later when Muslims scholars had forgotten the city of Petra, the writings of the
Zumurrud seemed totally absurd. Besides, by then Muhammad's overnight
journey to Jerusalem was accepted as a miracle.
Considering that Muhammad made the claim, that "I mounted it and came to the Temple (Bait Maqdis in Jerusalem), then tethered it to the ring used by the prophets. I entered the mosque and prayed two rak'ahs in it...", regarding a temple that had been torn down over 500 years prior to his ridiculous claim, how could they have "accepted" it as other than a "miracle". Even many of Muhammad's illiterate 7th century followers had the good sense to leave his cult after he came up with that whopper.
http://www.petewaldo.com/mohammeds_night_journey.htm
