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tion of Diabolis who disdained to do it. (20:116) prayer, prostrating and standing up, mindful of
Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and the hereafter, hoping for the mercy of his Lord?
everyone on the earth prostrates to Allah, and the Say: ‘Are they the same–those who know and
sun and moon and stars and the mountains, trees those who do not know?’ It is only people of in-
and beasts and many of mankind? But many of telligence who pay heed. (39:9)
them inevitably merit punishment. Those Allah Among His Signs are the night and day and the
humiliates will have no one to honour them. sun and moon. Do not prostrate to the sun nor to
Allah does whatever He wills. (22:18) the moon. Prostrate to Allah Who created them,
You who believe! Bow and prostrate and wor- if you worship Him. (41:37)
ship your Lord, and do good, so that hopefully Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those
you will be successful. (22:77) who are with him are fierce to the disbelievers,
When they are told to prostrate to the All- merciful to one another. You see them bowing
Merciful, they say, ‘And what is the All-Merciful? and prostrating, seeking Allah’s good favour and
Are we to prostrate to something you command His pleasure. Their mark is on their faces, the
us to?’ And it merely makes them run away all traces of prostration. That is their likeness in the
the more. (25:60) Torah. And their likeness in the Gospel is that of a
(The servants of the All-Merciful are) those who seed which puts up a shoot and makes it strong
pass the night prostrating and standing before so that it thickens and grows up straight upon its
their Lord; (25:64) stalk, filling the sowers with delight–so that by
The magicians threw themselves down, prostrat- them He may infuriate the disbelievers. Allah has
ing. (26:46) promised those of them who believe and do right
He Who sees you when you stand up to pray and actions forgiveness and an immense reward.
your movements with those who prostrate. (48:29)
(26:218-219) And glorify Him during the night and after you
(The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her and her peo- have prostrated. (50:40)
ple prostrating to the sun instead of Allah. Satan Prostrate before Allah and worship Him! (53:62)
has made their actions seem good to them and The herbs and the trees all bow down in prostra-
debarred them from the Way so they are not tion. (55:6)
guided and do not prostrate to Allah, Who brings On the Day when legs are bared and they are
out what is hidden in the heavens and the earth, called on to prostrate, they will not be able to do
and knows what you conceal and what you di- so. (68:42)
vulge.’ (27:24-25) Their eyes will be downcast, darkened by de-
The people who truly do believe in Our Signs are basement; for they were called on to prostrate
those who fall to the ground prostrating when when they were in full possession of their facul-
they are reminded of them, and glorify their Lord ties. (68:43)
with praise, and are not arrogant. (32:15) Prostrate to Him during the night and glorify Him
(Your Lord said to the angels,) ‘When I have throughout the long night. (76:26)
formed him and breathed My Spirit into him, fall What is the matter with them that they have no
down in prostration to him!’ (38:72) faith and, when the Qur’an is recited to them, do
So the angels prostrated, all of them together, not prostrate? (84:20-21)
except for Diabolis who was arrogant and was No indeed! Do not obey him, but prostrate and
one of the disbelievers. (38:73-74) draw near. (96:19)
He said, ‘Diabolis, what prevented you prostrat-
ing to what I created with My own Hands? Were PROTECTION
you overcome by arrogance or are you one of the Those who believe and have migrated and
exalted?’ (38:75) strived with their wealth and themselves in the
What of him who spends the night hours in Way of Allah, and those who have given refuge
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