Prayer is one of the greatest acts of worship that we turn to God (Glory be to Him), and one of the pillars of prayer is prostration. believer.
What is said in prostration?
Prostration is one of the obligations of prayer that is invalidated without it, and that obligation is one of the obligations agreed upon among religious scholars. Therefore, we must be careful to perform proper and correct prostration during prayer, so the believer must prostrate two prostrations in every rak’ah.
There are many supplications that we must pay attention to when prostrating. The Messenger of God (may God bless him and grant him peace) said: “As for bowing; So they glorified the Lord in it, and as for prostration; So strive hard in supplication, so that it may be answered for you.” And among the supplications that are said when prostrating:
- And about what is said in the prostration, one of the most famous formulas is saying “Glory be to my Lord the Most High”
- What was narrated on the authority of Ali (may God be pleased with him) that the Messenger (may God bless him and grant him peace) when he prostrated, he said: “Oh God, I prostrated to You, and in You I believed, and to You I surrendered.
- It was reported on the authority of Aisha (may God be pleased with her) that she said: “I lost the Messenger of God (may God bless him and grant him peace) one night from the bed, so I sought him. And I seek refuge in you from you, I do not count your praise, you are as you praised yourself.” Sahih Muslim.
- It was narrated in an authentic hadith in Ibn Majah’s Sunan Book that the Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him) said: “And when one of you prostrates, let him say, Glory be to my Lord, the Most High, three times, and that is below.”
- On the authority of Aisha (may God be pleased with her), she said that the Messenger (may God bless him and grant him peace) used to say when prostrating: “Glory be to the Holy One, the Lord of the Angels and the Spirit,” and it is one of the easy supplications to memorize and adhere to.
- On the authority of Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of God (may God bless him and grant him peace) used to say when he prostrated: “Oh God, forgive me all my sins, the subtlety and majesty of it, its beginning and its end, its openness and its secret.” Sahih Muslim.
- Abu Hurairah (may God be pleased with him) said that the Messenger (may God bless him and grant him peace) said: “The closest a servant is to his Lord is when he is prostrating, so supplicate more.”
What is said in the prostration of recitation?
- When a Muslim prostrates for recitation, which is the prostration found in some verses of the Holy Qur’an, it is desirable for him to say: “Oh God, make it for me as a treasure with You, and the greatest reward for me through it, relieve me of a burden through it, and accept it from me as you accepted it from David (peace be upon him).”
Ruling on what is said in prostration
Supplication when prostrating is one of the desirable things, and this is proven by hadiths from the Prophet’s Sunnah.
- On the authority of Abu Hurairah (may God be pleased with him) that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The closest a servant is to his Lord is when he is prostrating, so increase your supplication.” Sahih Muslim.
- In Al-Musnad on the authority of Aisha that the Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) said one night in his prostration: “My Lord, forgive me for what I secretly and what I declare.”
- On the authority of Aisha Al-Siddiqah, she said that the Prophet (peace and blessings of God be upon him) said one night in his prostration: “My Lord, give my soul its piety, and its purification is better than its purification. You are its protector and guardian.”
Those previous hadiths have indicated that it is desirable to supplicate during prostration because it is a means of answering the supplication, but if there is an imam, he should not prolong his prostration so as not to make the matter difficult for the congregation and not to overdo it in supplication.
It was narrated on the authority of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal, a narration that he said, “I do not like the supplication in bowing and prostrating during the obligatory prayers, even if religious matters do not take into account whims, but the supplication of prostration is desirable, and it is not one of the duties of prayer.”
Then came Imam Ahmad’s saying that it is okay for a man to supplicate for all his needs in this world and in the hereafter, and this is what Ibn Rushd (the commentator) said, and it is the correct one, and Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen (may God have mercy on him) also said it.
Some jurists said that if he supplicates for something of the worldly matters, his prayer is invalidated, and that is a weak and doubtful saying, and the correct view is that the believer has the right to supplicate for what is good for him in this world and the Hereafter, because supplication is an act of worship.
