The Meaning of Prostration in the Saying of the Exalted: “They fall down in prostration and weep”
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. By His saying (Glorified and Exalted is He):[Maryam 19:58] Is this prostration a result of fear, and not the prostration that is a pillar of the prayer?
Answer:
This is the prostration of recitation, and Allah knows best. It is the prostration of recitation.[Maryam 19:58] This is the prostration of recitation. Yes, and this verse is one of the verses of prostration, among the known prostrations in the Qur'an, which number fourteen, and this verse is one of them. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. By His saying (Glorified and Exalted is He):
they fell in prostration and weeping.
خَرُّوا سُجَّدًا وَبُكِيًّاAnswer:
This is the prostration of recitation, and Allah knows best. It is the prostration of recitation.
When the verses of the Most Merciful were recited to them, they fell in prostration and weeping.
إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتُ الرَّحْمَٰنِ خَرُّوا سُجَّدًا وَبُكِيًّا
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب البكاء في الصلاة من خشية الله - تعالى - — islamhouse.com (47:42)
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