Let us accept that he could ascend, but why did he and why should he? Would it not have been enough if he had ascended just in heart and spirit like the saints?

 

Since the Majestic Maker has willed to show His amazing signs in the inner and external dimensions of His domain, and to make the ‘workshops’ and sources of this world observed, and to display the results of man’s actions pertaining to the Hereafter, most certainly and as required by the reason and wisdom, together with Muhammad’s spirit, He would take to His Supreme Throne his eyes, the key to the world of visible objects, his ears, which perceived His signs in the world of sound and voices, and to cut it short, his blessed body, which is like the machine of his spirit comprising different members and components by means of which he performed his countless duties. Just as the Divine Wisdom makes the body accompany the spirit in Paradise, because it is the body that is the means by which numerous duties of worship are performed and the means of innumerable pleasures and pains, so also it is pure wisdom that He would make his blessed body accompany his spirit ascending to the Lote-tree of the furthest limit, which is the ‘trunk’ of the Garden of Abode.

 

This article has been adapted from Risale- i Nur Collection.