The Risāla fí'l-jasad al-nabī (Treatise upon the Body of the Prophet Muhammad) or Sharh kafiyyat. al-mi`raj (Commentary upon the modality of the mi`raj [of Muhammad]).

 Stephen N. Lambden

This presentation will consist of the exposition through provisional translation and  commentary upon the Risala fi'l-jasad al-nabi, the Treatise upon the Translocation of the Body of the Prophet Muhammad, of the Bab. It is a 2-3 page Arabic treatise  written in reply to a question (posed in Isfahan in 1846 by Mirza Hasan Nuri?) about the translocation of the body of the Prophet  Muhammad , his jasad ("Body") being in more than one time-space location. It is centered upon an interpretation of the tibyan  al-ashkal (clarification of forms), relative to the rijāl al-a`rāf ("men of the heights" = Twelver Imams ?) and the manner of the mi`raj  ("Night Ascent") of the prophet Muhammad (cf. Q.171f). It includes an exposition of the various (Islamic) concepts of "time",  including the three levels of al-sarmad ("beginingless eternity") that of dahr, the realm of the "eternal continuance of time" and  that of al-zamán which is suggestive of the duration of time itself.

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