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Vol. 5 Num 462 Mon. September 12, 2005  
   
Letters to Editor


Shab-e-Miraj


I was reading Syed Ashraf Ali's article on Shab-e-Miraj with rapt attention.

While Islamic literature testifies that the Miraj did take place between Allah and Holy Prophet ( pbuh), it has to be taken as a spiritual journey.

Allah is omnipotent and omnipresent and to limit him with human imagination would be a grave error that led to the birth of mullahism (i.e. fundamentalism which ignores the role of metaphor in religious text) . Let's not promote it.

It would be a grave mistake to turn the most significant spiritual experience granted to the best of mankind, the best of all the prophets, Holy Prophet, into a fairy tale!