Le voyage nocturne et l'ascension

The night of 27 Rajab remains a landmark date among Muslims, as it marks the advent of the night journey, one of the most prodigious events in Islamic history.

Set just before the Hijra and after the painful event of Taifa, the night journey, which took the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ from Mecca to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem to the heavens, will mark the end of an era punctuated by extreme resilience and faith of Muslims in Mecca and open a new, happier chapter in Medina.

In this book, the author, through authentic prophetic traditions and the writings of renowned authors, invites us to intimately appropriate the precepts of the night journey which has earned us the prayer (central act of Islam) and which has a spiritual, profound and subtle meaning. This book is a must for those who want to understand the external and gnostic aspects of the night journey made by the Prophet of Islam in his physical and waking state.

Mouhamadou Mahy Cissé is an outstanding spiritual guide and one of the Imams of the Great Mosque of Medina Baye. He is the Director of Studies of the African American Islamic Institute (AAII) and the President of the NGO Alfityanu Humanitaire International (AHI). Son of Sidi Ali CISSÉ (1906 – 1982), right hand and 1st Khalife of Sheikh Al-Islam Ibrahim NIASS and Seyda Fatima Zahra NIASS (1924 – 2020), eldest daughter of Sheikh Al-Islam Ibrahim NIASS, Mouhamadou Mahy Cissé is an eminent teacher of great culture who has followed in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessors (Sheikh Al-Islam Ibrahim NIASS, Sidi Ali Cissé, Imam Hassan Cissé). His various interventions are in perfect symbiosis with the teachings of Sheikh Al-Islam Ibrahim NIASS. He never ceases to promote an Islam of peace, tolerance, love, solidarity and increased worship of knowledge.