Sudschūd

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Man during the Sudshūd (illustration)

Sudschūd ( Arabic سُجود, Prostration ) or Sajda ( Arabic سجدة) denotes an attitude of the Muslim during ritual prayer . Seven points of the body touch the ground at the same time:

  • the head (forehead and nose)
  • both hands
  • both knees
  • both feet or all toes

According to several traditions ( hadith ), the believer in this position is closest to Allah .

Some people have what is known as a prayer mark .

Sudschūd in ritual prayer

During the Sudshūd there is praise to Allah and Du'a :سُبْحَانَ رَبِّيَ الْأَعْلَى subḥāna rabbīya 'l-aʿlā which means: Praise my Lord the Most High . Usually this formula is recited three times during a sudschūd. Further Du'a - numerous are narrated in the Sunna - is possible, the Sudschūd is not limited in time; however, it isforbidden torecite verses from the Koran .

“Ĥadīth of Abu Hurairah, recorded by Muşlim, where it says: The Messenger of God - God bless him and give him salvation! - said: "The servant is closest to his master in prostration (in prayer), so often perform supplication while you prostrate!"

The Sajda is one of the compulsory positions in prayer, that is, without the Sajda the prayer is not valid, unless the person praying is physically incapable of doing so, for example old or sick. It follows in the course of the prayer after the rukūʿ , in each raka 'there are two sudschūd, between the two you sit upright for a short time. Before and after a Sujud is Takbeer spoken. Obligatory prayers therefore have four ( Fajr ), six ( Maghrib ) or eight ( Zuhr , Asr , ʿIsha ' ) prostrations.

There is a sura about it in the Koran, the al-Sajda .

Sudschūd as Sahw

This sudschūd must be performed if a fard component has been forgotten or added during prayer or the order of the individual elements has not been observed. For the Sudschūd as Sahw, two prostrations are performed before or after the end of the prayer by the Taslim. This corrects the faulty prayer.

Sudschūd at Tilawat

In addition, there are a total of 15 verses in the Koran, after the recitation or listening of which a Sajda should be performed (Sunna) - with the same conditions as for ritual prayer: ritual purity of the body and the place, direction Mecca. However, this can also be done with the next prayer.

The Sajda verses

Sudschūdu-t-Tilawa - The prostration in the recitation of the Koran In most editions of the Koran these are marked by durch with an overline of the word or words that require the prostration. Muslims should prostrate themselves once to follow the Sunnah of Muhammad.

The name of the sura and the relevant verse are given. The order corresponds to the order of the Koran.


literature

  • Roberto Tottoli: Muslim Attitudes Towards Prostration (sujūd): I. Arabs and Prostration at the Beginning of Islam and in the Qur'ān. In: Studia Islamica. No. 88, 1998, pp. 5-34.
  • Roberto Tottoli: Muslim Attitudes towards Prostration (sujūd), II. The Prominence and Meaning of Prostration in Muslim Literature. In: Le Muséon. 111, 1998, pp. 405-426.
  • Roberto Tottoli: Traditions and controversies concerning the "suǧūd al-Qurʾān" in ḥadīṯ literature. In: Journal of the German Oriental Society. Vol. 147, No. 2, 1997, pp. 371-393 (available online from Menadoc).
  • Roberto Tottoli: Muslim Traditions Against Secular Prostration and Inter-Religious Polemic. In: Medieval Encounters. 5, 1999, pp. 99-111.
  • Robert Gleave: Prayer and prostration: Imami Shi'i discussions of al-sujud 'ala al-turba al-Husayniyya. In: Pedram Khosronejad (Ed.): The art and material culture of Iranian Shi'ism: iconography and religious devotion in Shi'i Islam. IB Tauris, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84885-168-9 , pp. 233-253.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The prostration of forgetfulness (Sujud as-Sahw) - Islam Fatwa. Retrieved April 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ r-islam.com