The Prostration (As­Sajdah)

In the name of Allah, Gracious, Merciful.

¹A.L.M.

²The revelation of the book in which there is no doubt, from the Lord of the worlds.¹

³Or do they say “He has forged it”? Nay, it is the truth from the Lord that you may admonish a people to whom no warner has come before you: in order that they may receive guidance.

⁴It is Allah Who has created the heavens and the earth and all between them in six Days and is firmly established on the Throne (of authority): ye have none besides Him to protect or intercede (for you): will ye not then receive admonition?

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim

¹Alif lam mim

²Tanzilul kitabi la raiba fihi mi rabbil alamin

³Am yaqulunaf tarar bal huwal haqqu mirrabbika litunzira qaumam ma atahum min nazirim min qablika la allahum yahtadun

⁴Allahul lazi halaqas samawati wal arda wa ma bainahuma fi sitati ayyamin summas tawa alal arsi ma lakum min dunihi miw waliy yiw wala safiin afala tatazak karun

1. One does not need to look any further to realize that the Qur’an is complete with doubts, falsehoods, confusions. Whether they are deliberate or not, the fact remains that the Qur’an contains a lot that creates doubt in the mind of the honest seeker.

⁵He rules affairs from the heavens to the earth: in the end all affairs will go up to Him on a day the space whereof will be a thousand years of your reckoning.

⁶Such is He, the knower of all things hidden and open, the exalted, the merciful;

⁷He who has made everything which He has created most good. He began the creation of man with clay .

⁸And made his progeny from a quintessence of the nature of a fluid despised:²

⁹But He fashioned him in due proportion and breathed into him something of His spirit. And He gave you hearing, and sight, and feeling: little thanks do you give!

⁵Yudab birul amra minassamai ilal ardi summa yaruju ilaihi fi yaumin kana miqdaruhu alfa sanatim mimma tauddun

⁶Zalika alimul gaibi wassahadatil azizur rahim

⁷Alazi ahsana kul la saiin halaqahu wa bada a halqalinsani min tin

⁸Summa jaala nas lahu min sulalatim mim ma immahin

⁹Summa sawwahu wa nafaha fihi mirruhihi wa jaala lakumus sama wal absara wal af idah qalilam ma taskurun

2. Sex is a dirty act in Islam, and so is anything that come out of the body, urine, vomit and everything else. But the sperm out of which life is formed, should not be considered despised or worthless. Sex is so dirty that it renders one unfit to worship God during and after the act without ablution. Fiqh-us-Sunnah Fiqh 1.53:

According to most scholars, one who is physically unclean (because of sex or menstruation) may not recite any portion of the Qur’an. This is based on a hadith from ‘Ali, in which he stated that nothing kept the Messenger of Allah, upon whom be peace, from the Qur’an save being sexually impure.

¹⁰And they say: “What! when we lie hidden and lost in the earth shall we indeed be in a creation renewed?” No, they deny the meeting with their Lord!

¹¹Say: “The angel of death put in charge of you will take your souls: then you shall be brought back to your Lord.”

¹²And if only you could see when the guilty ones will bend low their heads before their Lord saying: “Our Lord! We have seen and we have heard: now then send us back: we will work righteousness: for we do indeed now believe.”

¹³And if We had so willed We could certainly have brought every soul its true guidance: but the word from Me will come true. “I will fill hell with jinns and men all together.”³

¹⁴“Taste you then for you forgot the meeting of this day of yours and We too will forget you, taste you the penalty of eternity for your deeds!”

¹⁰Wa qalu a iza dalalna fil ardi a inna lafi halqin jadid bal hum biliqai rabbihim kafirun

¹¹Qul yatawaf fakum malakul mautillazi wukkila bikum summa ila rabbikum turjaun

¹²Wa lau tara izil mujrimuna nakisu ru usihim inda rabbihim rabana absarna wa samina farjina namal salihan inna muqimun

¹³Wa lau sina la ataina kulla nafsin hudaha wa lakin haqqal qaulu minni la amla anna jahannama minal jinnati wannasi ajmain

¹⁴Fazuqu bima nasitum liqa a yaumikum haza inna nasinakum wa zuqu qzabal huldi bima kuntum tamalun

3. Since the Torah was given to Moses and his people, and the people of Ad and Thamud received their peculiar apostles, and to the Arabs has Muhammad been sent. Does it follow that Allah has brought to every soul its true guidance. Both the jinn and had input here. This verse is not from Allah. Look again at the speakers.

¹⁵Only those believe in Our signs who when they are recited to them fall down in adoration and celebrate the praises of their Lord, nor are they puffed up with pride.

¹⁶Their limbs do forsake their beds of sleep while they call on their Lord in fear and hope: and they spend out of the sustenance which We have bestowed on them.

¹⁷Now no person knows what delights of the eye are kept hidden for them as a reward for their deeds.

¹⁸Is then the man who believes no better than the man who is rebellious and wicked? They are not equal.

¹⁹For those who believe and do righteous deeds are gardens as hospitable homes for their deeds.

¹⁵Innama yuminu bi ayatinal lazina iza zuk kiru biha harru suj jadaw wa sabbahu bihamdi rab bihim wa hum la yastakbirun

¹⁶Tatajafa junubuhum anil madajii yaduna rabbahum haufaw wa tamaaw wa mimma razaknahum yunfiqun

¹⁷Fala talamu nafsumma uhfiya lahum min qurrati ayun jaza an bima kanu yamalun

¹⁸Afaman kana muminan kaman kana fasiqa la yastawun

¹⁹Ammal lazina amanu wa amilussalihati falahum jannatul mawa nuzulan bima kanu yamalun

²⁰And as to those who are rebellious and wicked, their abode will be the fire: every time they wish to get away therefrom, they will be forced thereinto, and it will be said to them: “taste the penalty of the fire which you were known to reject as false.

²¹And indeed We will make them taste of the penalty of this life prior to the supreme penalty, in order that they may repent and return.

²²And who does more wrong than one to whom are recited the signs of his Lord, and who then turns away therefrom? Verily, from those who transgress We shall exact retribution.

²³We did indeed give the book to Moses before: be not then in doubt of its reaching you: and We made it a guide to the Children of Israel.

²⁰Wa ammal lazina fasaqu famawa humun nar kullama aradu ayyahruju minha uidu fiha wa qila lahum zuqu azaban narillazi kuntum bihi tukazzibun

²¹Wa lanuziqan nahum minal azabil adna dunal azabil akbari la allahum yarjiun

²²Wa man azlamu mimman zukkira bi ayati rabbihi summa arada anha inna minal mujrimina muntaqimun

²³Wa laqad ataina Musal kitaba fala takun fi miryatim milliqa ihi wa jaalnahu hudal libani Israil

²⁴And We appointed from among them leaders, giving guidance under Our command so long as they persevered with patience and continued to have faith in Our signs.

²⁵Verily, your Lord will judge between them on the day of judgment in the matters wherein they differ.

²⁶Does it not teach them a lesson how many generations We destroyed before them, in whose dwellings they go to and fro? Verily, in that are signs: do they not then listen?

²⁷And do they not see that We do drive rain to parched soil and produce therewith crops providing food for their cattle and themselves? Have they not the vision?

²⁴Wa jaalna minhum a im matayyahduna bi amrina lamma sabaru wa kanu bi ayatina yuqinun

²⁵Inna rabbaka huwa yafsilu bainahum yaumal qiyamati fima kanu fihi yahtalifun

²⁶Awalam yahdi lahum kam ahlakna min qablihim inal quruni yamsuna fi masakinihim inna fi zalika la ayat afala yasmaun

²⁷Awalam yarau anna nasuqul ma a ilal ardil juruzi fanuhriju bihi zaran takulu minhu anamunum wa anfusuhum afala yubsirun

²⁸And they say: “When will this decision be if you are telling the truth?”

²⁹Say: “On the day of decision, no profit will it be to unbelievers if they believe! Nor will they be granted a respite.”

³⁰So turn away from them and wait: they too are waiting.

²⁸Wa yaquluna mata hazal fathu inkuntum sadiqin

²⁹Qul yaumal fathi la yanfaul lazina kafaru imanuhum wa la hum yunzarun

³⁰Fa arid anhum wantazir innahum muntazirun