Can a night journey across the heavens be reconciled with a universe where nothing outruns light? This paper puts the Isra and Mi'raj (Qur'an 17:1) to the same test a physicist would apply to any claim of superluminal travel. It separates what the Qur'anic text actually says from later hadith elaboration, closes off every popular "physics already allows faster-than-light" shortcut — quantum entanglement, tunnelling time, cosmological expansion, tachyons — and turns instead to the one place general relativity itself does not forbid an effective faster-than-light transit: the Morris-Thorne traversable wormhole and the Alcubierre warp metric. It derives exactly what exotic matter each would require, and why that matter remains, as of today, physically unrealized. As Fig. 1 shows, the argument compresses into a single image: a crescent-lit night sky opens into a concentric golden portal — the paper's own wormhole-throat geometry, reused as art — pouring a column of light down onto a lone mosque silhouette, standing at the mouth of the very throat the paper spends its pages deriving.
Fig. 1 — The cover illustration — a domed mosque silhouetted beneath a night sky, lit by a single beam descending from a concentric golden portal that echoes the paper's Morris-Thorne wormhole embedding diagram (Fig. 2 in the main text), visually uniting the Isra's night journey with the general-relativistic throat geometry the paper argues is the only physically live, though still unconfirmed, frame for it.
The paper kept two claims deliberately separate. First, ordinary
particle- and signal-level physics — entanglement correlations, phase velocity,
tunnelling time, cosmological expansion, apparent superluminal jets, tachyons
— was surveyed and found, in every case, not to constitute genuine faster-than-
c transport; this was presented as a closed, heavily tested question. Second,
general relativity itself was shown to behave differently: it does not categorically
forbid an effective superluminal transit achieved by curving spacetime, as in the
Morris–Thorne wormhole or the Alcubierre warp metric, conditional on a
form of matter no known process supplies.
Can a night journey across the heavens be reconciled with a universe where nothing outruns light? This paper puts the Isra and Mi'raj (Qur'an 17:1) to the same test a physicist would apply to any claim of superluminal travel. It separates what the Qur'anic text actually says from later hadith elaboration, closes off every popular "physics already allows faster-than-light" shortcut — quantum entanglement, tunnelling time, cosmological expansion, tachyons — and turns instead to the one place general relativity itself does not forbid an effective faster-than-light transit: the Morris-Thorne traversable wormhole and the Alcubierre warp metric. It derives exactly what exotic matter each would require, and why that matter remains, as of today, physically unrealized. As Fig. 1 shows, the argument compresses into a single image: a crescent-lit night sky opens into a concentric golden portal — the paper's own wormhole-throat geometry, reused as art — pouring a column of light down onto a lone mosque silhouette, standing at the mouth of the very throat the paper spends its pages deriving.
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The paper kept two claims deliberately separate. First, ordinary particle- and signal-level physics — entanglement correlations, phase velocity, tunnelling time, cosmological expansion, apparent superluminal jets, tachyons — was surveyed and found, in every case, not to constitute genuine faster-than- c transport; this was presented as a closed, heavily tested question. Second, general relativity itself was shown to behave differently: it does not categorically forbid an effective superluminal transit achieved by curving spacetime, as in the Morris–Thorne wormhole or the Alcubierre warp metric, conditional on a form of matter no known process supplies.