Quran chapter 17 surah 17.

God took the soul of Prophet Muhammad on a journey at night to the ruins of the temple in Zion Jerusalem in Israel, Al-Quds in Palestine in Quran 17:1 and then to heaven in Quran 17:60 as described in Quran 6:60 and Quran 39:42 “God is the one who takes your souls at night”, Quran 17:60 “the vision” of Prophet Muhammad meaning the dream, Quran 12:6 and Quran 38:45 the vision meaning dream of Prophet Abraham Ibrahim, Prophet Isaac Ishaq and Prophet Jacob Yaqub Israel and Quran 48:27 Prophet Muhammad’s vision meaning dream.


In the same way as God gave visions to the prophets of the past God in Quran 17:60 describes the night journey and ascension to heaven of Prophet Muhammad as a vision given to Prophet Muhammad to show the greatest signs of God in Quran 53:18 including the signs of God in Hell Jahannam in Quran 17:60 and the signs of God in Paradise Jannah in Quran 53:13 – 53:18 and the signs of God in the Lote tree marking the farthest boundary beyond which no creation may pass and is one of the places where creations are said to “stand in the presence of God” in Quran 53:16 and the signs of God in Jerusalem Al-Quds whose surroundings God has blessed as the Holy land of Palestine and Israel in Quran 17:1.


This understanding of Quran 17:1 and Quran 17:60 is confirmed in Quran 53:17 which describes dreaming during sleep and by Quran 6:60 and Quran 39:42 which show that God does not raise the physical human body to Himself or to heaven. Only the soul is raised by God to Himself or to heaven. The physical human body is designed for life and death on the earth. The soul is designed for life with God in heaven during sleep and during death.


On the Day of Resurrection in the hereafter on a new earth meaning a new land, a new ground, the soul will be given a new physical body that can feel reward or punishment and every human will testify that death felt like nothing but a one hour sleep or a ten hour sleep or a sleep during part of a morning or part of an afternoon and no one will say that death felt like anything more than sleeping for part of one morning or part of one afternoon. 

Since death for every human will feel like nothing but sleeping for part of one day no one will know how long it really was between the time of their death and the time of the Day of Resurrection in Quran 2:259, Quran 18:19, Quran 18:21, Quran 20:103, Quran 20:104, Quran 23:113, Quran 30:55, Quran 46:35 and Quran 79:46.