Note 99 — PART I THE LEGEND OF THE NOCTURNAL JOURNEY AND ASCENSION OF MAHOMET COMPARED WITH THE DIVINE COMEDY
Harold Sunderland translation
Cf. Tafsir of Qummi, XV, 6. Other Sufi interpreters account for the inclusion of the Miraj in the Divine Scheme by the necessity of Mahomet’s being able to explain the mysteries of the after-life with the authority of one who had been an eye-witness. Cf. MS 105 Gayangos Coll., fol. 213; also Al-Horayfish, 104.