What is said in the prostration of recitation, and do we prostrate for recitation when reading individually?
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The questioner:
What is said in the prostration of recitation? Do we prostrate for recitation when reading individually? Is it permissible for us to prostrate the prostration of recitation when hearing the Noble Qur'an from others, or when listening to the radio or a tape? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh:
The prostration of recitation is a recommended practice (sunnah), not obligatory. If one comes upon a verse containing a prostration, the reciter and the listener prostrate. The reciter is the one to whom the listener is listening, so if the reciter does not prostrate, the listener does not prostrate, because he is following him. Likewise, listening to the radio or a tape does not make prostration prescribed in that case, because the reciter in it did not prostrate; it is a recorded recitation, not a live recitation from a person present. Do not prostrate merely upon hearing the prostration from the radio or the tape.
What is said in the prostration of recitation is what is said in the prostration of prayer: one says "Subhan Rabbi al-A'la" (Glory be to my Lord, the Most High) and repeats it, and supplicates with whatever is easy for him. If he says, "O Allah, I prostrate to You, in You I believe, upon You I rely, my face prostrates to Allah who created it, and opened its hearing and sight," and then supplicates with whatever is easy for him, that is a good thing. Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. Regarding prostration in the case of individual recitation, as Shaykh Faris said?
The Shaykh:
He prostrates, whether he is an individual reading the Qur'an himself, in which case he prostrates, or they are a group listening to his recitation, and then the reciter prostrates, in which case they prostrate following him. Likewise, if the imam prostrates in prayer, they prostrate with him, whether it is an obligatory prayer or a voluntary prayer; they follow their imam in the prostration of recitation. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
What is said in the prostration of recitation? Do we prostrate for recitation when reading individually? Is it permissible for us to prostrate the prostration of recitation when hearing the Noble Qur'an from others, or when listening to the radio or a tape? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh:
The prostration of recitation is a recommended practice (sunnah), not obligatory. If one comes upon a verse containing a prostration, the reciter and the listener prostrate. The reciter is the one to whom the listener is listening, so if the reciter does not prostrate, the listener does not prostrate, because he is following him. Likewise, listening to the radio or a tape does not make prostration prescribed in that case, because the reciter in it did not prostrate; it is a recorded recitation, not a live recitation from a person present. Do not prostrate merely upon hearing the prostration from the radio or the tape.
What is said in the prostration of recitation is what is said in the prostration of prayer: one says "Subhan Rabbi al-A'la" (Glory be to my Lord, the Most High) and repeats it, and supplicates with whatever is easy for him. If he says, "O Allah, I prostrate to You, in You I believe, upon You I rely, my face prostrates to Allah who created it, and opened its hearing and sight," and then supplicates with whatever is easy for him, that is a good thing. Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. Regarding prostration in the case of individual recitation, as Shaykh Faris said?
The Shaykh:
He prostrates, whether he is an individual reading the Qur'an himself, in which case he prostrates, or they are a group listening to his recitation, and then the reciter prostrates, in which case they prostrate following him. Likewise, if the imam prostrates in prayer, they prostrate with him, whether it is an obligatory prayer or a voluntary prayer; they follow their imam in the prostration of recitation. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ماذا يقال في سجدة التلاوة وهل نسجد للتلاوة في حال القراءة الفردية؟ الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com
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