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| Sujud/Sujood | |
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 Worshipper performing Sujood | |
| Official name | Sujud/Sujood |
| Also called | Sajdah, Prostration in Islam |
| Observed by | Muslims andIslam |
| Type | Islamic |
| Significance | A way that Muslim worshippers prostrate and humble themselves beforeGod while glorifying him |
| Observances |
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| Frequency | Twice in everyraka'at ofSalat, amongst others |
| Related to | Salah,Tilawa,Allah,Alhamdulillah,Prostration,Islam,Sunnah,Fardh,Muhammad,Muhammad in Islam |
Sujud (Arabic:سُجُود,romanized: sujūd,pronounced[sʊˈdʒuːd]), orsajdah (سَجْدَة,[ˈsadʒ.da]), also known assijda,sejda orshejda, inIslam is the act of low bowing orprostration toGod facing theqiblah (direction of theKaaba atMecca). It is usually done in standardized prayers (salah). The position involves kneeling and bowing till one touches the ground with seven bones (points): the forehead and nose, two hands, two knees and two sets of toes.[1] In accordance with theSunnah (the Way) ofMuhammad, one's elbows should be far from one's body,[2] unless it causes discomfort to other worshippers, but not resting on the ground. Some scholars hold the position that this applies only to men, and that women are encouraged to tuck their elbows in out ofmodesty.[3]
Sujud (prostration) is one of the main pillars of daily prayer (salah) inIslam. A single act of sujud is called a sajdah (pluralsajdāt). Muslims perform sujud several times during each prayer, depending on the number ofraka'at of prayer: two sajadat are performed every raka'ah, and prayers vary in obligatory length between two and four raka'at (additional supererogatory raka'at are often performed assunnah muakkadah, or emulation of the example of Muhammad as represented in thesahihhadith). A raka'ah is a unit of set actions that have to be performed in a prayer. The shortestfard (obligatory) Muslim prayer is that offajr, performed immediately before sunrise (two raka'ahs) and the shortest ever possible number of raka'ahs is in thewitr prayer, which is considered Sunnah in the Maaliki, Shafi'i and HanbaliMadhabs (schools of Fiqh) and Wajib (compulsory) in the Hanafi madhab, with one needing an odd number of Rakats to complete the prayer, with one being valid in all madhabs but the Hanafi Madhab. The raka'ah can be described as follows:[4]
Points 1–7 define one raka'ah. Thus, the shortest prayer, that of fajr, contains four sajadat. ForHanafis,witr prayer is three raka'ahs, which is for them consideredwajib, a level of necessity below that of fard but above all else: in practice, this makes witr obligatory.[4]
While in sujud, the use of aturbah (a small piece of soil or clay, often a clay tablet), on which a person places their forehead, is compulsory in most Shi'a schools of Islam.
During recitation (tilawa) of theQur'an, including individual and congregation prayers, there are fifteen places where Muslims believe, when Muhammad recited a certain verse (ayah), he prostrated to God.[citation needed]The verses are:
In most copies of the Qur'an these are indicated by the symbol ۩, with an over-line on the word/s that invoked the prostration. Muslims must prostrate once in order to follow theSunnah (example) of Muhammad and recite any one or more of the following along with Takbeer before and after the sujud,
Sujud Sahwi or Sajdah of forgetfulness occurs during the ritualsalat prayer. Out of forgetfulness a person can either omit obligatory parts of salat (Qabli) or add to the salat (Ba'adi). In either cases the person corrects their salat by doing the Sujud Sahwi.
Sujud is made only to God. In prayer, Muslims face theKaaba inMecca, Saudi Arabia.
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