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5 ILM-I-TAJWiD. 



Abu Hanifa considers it farz, the other three Imams, Malik, 

 Hanbal and Shafa'i consider it sunnat. The former also held 

 that if a person accidentally overheard some other person 

 reading these passages he must make Sijda ; the latter do 

 not think it necessary in such a case. Hanifa also held that 

 if in the E-uku' of a Namaz a Sijda verse occurred, 

 the worshipper might make this Sijda after the Namaz was 

 over ; the others say that it should be done there and then. 



When making the Sijda the Takbir should be said, and on 

 rising, the Salam, but not the Tashshahud. Imams Hanifa 

 and Malik, however, say that the Takbir also should be said 

 on rising up from the Sijda. 



Altogether there are fourteen Sijda verses. 6 



1. Surat-ul-A'araf (vii), v. 205 : " They praise and 



prostrate themselves before Him." 



2. Surat-ur-B'ad (xiii), v. 16: "Unto God doth all 



in the heavens and on the earth bow down in 

 worship, willingly or by constraint: their very 

 shadows also morn and even !" 



3. Surat-un-Nahl (xvi), vv. 51, 52 : "All in the heavens 



and all on the earth, each thing that moveth, 

 and the very angels, prostrate them in adoration 

 before God, and are free from pride ; they fear their 

 Lord who is above them, and do what they are 

 bidden." 



4. Surat-ul-Asra (xvii), v. 109 : " Glory be to God ! 



the promise of our Lord is made good. They fall 

 down on their faces weeping, and it increaseth their 

 humility." 



nor the thigh the calf of the leg. The eyes must be kept bent downwards. 

 Then he touches the ground first with his nose, and then with his forehead, 

 taking care that the thumbs just touch the lobe of the ears. In this position 

 he says the Tasbih-i-Sijda three times : " I extol the holiness of my Lord, 

 the Most High !" 

 6 Imftm Malik rejects the three last and so reckons only eleven. 



