The word · The Qur’an
سَجْدَةُ التِّلاوَة
Sajdah Tilawah
The prostration made on reaching one of the Qur'an's marked verses of prostration, in prayer or outside it.
Also written · Sajda tilawat · Sajdah tilawat · Sujud at-tilawah · Sujood tilawah · Sajda e tilawat · Ayat as-Sajdah · verses of prostration · sajdah verse · prostration of recitation
The meaning
What Sajdah Tilawah means in Islam
The mushaf marks these verses in the margin, usually with the word sajdah and a line above the text. The schools count them differently, at eleven, fourteen or fifteen, so mushafs printed in different regions mark a different number of them. It is a single prostration, and most scholars hold it is recommended rather than required, including for someone who is only listening.
Evidence · Scholars differ · The scholars read this one differently
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Words that sit beside it
- Sujud al-TilawahA single prostration made when reciting or hearing one of the Qur'an's verses of prostration.سُجودُ التِّلاوَة
- MushafA physical copy of the Qur'an: the pages, ink and binding, as distinct from the revelation itself.المُصْحَف
- TilawahReciting the Qur'an aloud, following its words closely rather than merely reading over them.التِّلاوَة
- AyahA verse of the Qur'an, and in ordinary Arabic a sign.آيَة
More from The Qur’an
- Al-Ahruf as-Sab'ahThe seven modes in which the Qur'an was revealed, an ease for the community; what a mode is stays disputed.الأَحْرُفُ السَّبْعَة
- HifzMemorising the Qur'an by heart, traditionally with a teacher who hears you every day.الحِفْظ
- IzharPronouncing a nun sakinah or tanwin clearly, with no nasal hum, before one of six throat letters.الإِظْهار
- MufassalThe last stretch of the Qur'an, from about Surah Qaf to the end, made up of shorter surahs.المُفَصَّل
- Qira'atThe canonical ways of reciting the Qur'an, each carried by chain from the Prophet through a named reader.القِراءات
- TadwirThe middle speed of recitation, sitting between the slow tartil and the quick hadr.التَّدْوير