What is better in prayer: lengthening the recitation or lengthening the bowing and prostration?

Question : Is it better to have a lot of recitation, meaning lengthening the recitation, or lengthening the bowing and prostration?

Answer : Some scholars say that if you want to pray a voluntary prayer, it is better to have a lot of recitation, because the Qur'an is better than anything else, and to shorten the bowing and prostration. Others say, rather, shorten the recitation and lengthen the bowing and prostration, because the bowing is a place of glorifying the Lord and the prostration is a place of supplication and nearness to Allah, Mighty and Majestic. However, regarding the matter of prayer, it is said that the guidance of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was for the prayer to be balanced and proportionate: if you lengthen the standing, you lengthen the bowing and prostration, and if you shorten the standing, you shorten the bowing and prostration.