SAJDA-SUJÛD - سجدة -سُجود ‎

 

Literally: Prostrating and bowing one’s head with the highest degree of humility. The opposite of proud. Prostration before Allah. Sajda is to proclaim ‘abd’s obedience to Allah and display the highest degree of humility, impotence and poverty through offering du'â and tasbîh before the Creator.

Sujûd is the plural of sajda.

 

…performing sajda before the unfading beauty (Jamâl) of His Essence, His unaltering sacred attributes and unchanging perfection (Kamâl) of His eternity, proclaiming its love and ‘ubûdiyyah within wonder and submission by abandoning mâsiwâ1, and finding Al-Jamîl, Who is Bâqî, the Eternal Rahîm instead of all transient beings, then, saying سُبْحَانَ رَبِّىَ اْلاَعْلَى , declaring its Most High Rabb, Who is pure and free of all faults, and is exalted above any deficiency…

The Ninth Word-Fifth Subtle Point