Also why did the donkey he mounted have a woman's face ?
During the period when Muhammad was maintaining a low profile in Mecca, it is said, he, for an unexplained reason, was sleeping one night of the year 620 A.D., in the house of his cousin, Umm Hani. She was a widow whose husband had died when the couple was living in Abyssinia. In the dead of the night, angel Gabriel came to him and "spurred him with his foot" . Thus awakened, he was instantly transported to Jerusalem by means of the "winged horse with a woman's face and peacock's tail," called the Burraq. While there, Muhammad tied up the Burraq to a post and thence led all the prophets of bygone days, including Adam, in a prayer at the holy temple known as the "Dome of the Rock."On the issue of morality, critics question the purpose of Muhammad's presence, at dead of night, in the house of a widowed woman, who was living alone, as well as God's decision for inviting him to heaven from the widow's house, instead of his own.
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