Editing Jacob's Ladder (section)

== Islam ==
[[Jacob in Islam|In Islam]], Jacob ({{langx|ar|يَعْقُوب|Yaʿqūb}}) is revered as a [[Prophets and messengers in Islam|prophet]] and [[patriarch]]. Muslim scholars drew a parallel between Jacob's vision of the ladder<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sunnahonline.com/library/stories-of-the-prophets/296-story-of-prophet-yaqub|title=Story of Ya'qub (Jacob)| website= SunnahOnline.com |last= Kathir |first= Ibn |language= en-gb|access-date=2017-09-07}}</ref> and [[Muhammad]]'s event of the [[Isra' and Mi'raj|Miʿrāj]].<ref>{{cite book| first1= Sachiko| last1= Murata | first2= William C.| last2= Chittick |year= 1994| url= http://traditionalhikma.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vision-of-Islam-by-Sachiko-Murata-and-William-C.-Chittick.pdf |title= The Vision of Islam| page= 85}}</ref> The ladder of Jacob was interpreted to be one of the many symbols of [[God in Islam|God]], and many see Jacob's Ladder as representing in its form the essence of Islam, which emphasizes following the "straight path". The twentieth-century scholar [[Martin Lings]] described the significance of the ladder in the Islamic mystic perspective:
{{quote|The ladder of the created Universe is the ladder which appeared in a dream to Jacob, who saw it stretching from Heaven to earth, with Angels going up and down upon it; and it is also the "straight path", for indeed the way of religion is none other than the way of creation itself retraced from its end back to its Beginning.|source=Lings, Martin. The Book of Certainty. p. 51.}}