Is it necessary to perform sajdah at-tilawah when a person reads the translation of the verses of sajdah?
Dear Brother / Sister,
To read a verse of sajdah (prostration) in English or any other language necessitates prostration. It becomes wajib for both the person who reads it and the one who hears it. However, if the person who hears it does not know that it is a verse of prostration, it is not necessary for him to perform a sajdah of prostration.
According to the majority of fiqh scholars, a person who reads the translation of sajdah verses in another language has to prostrate; this is the sound view. For, what is meant by the verses of prostration is its decree denoting prostration. The same decree is valid in other languages, too. The writer of al-Muhit holds this view and writes, "There is consensus on it." When it is read in Arabic, sajdah of tilawah is definitely necessary. However, he who has an excuse can delay it for a while.
(bk. Celal Yıldırım, İslam Fıkhı)
Questions on Islam
- What is the inner meaning of the chapter of al-Fatiha’s being read in every rak’ah and performing ruku’ and sajdah?
- Does sajda as-sahw (prostration of forgetfulness) become necessary if we change the places of the invocations that we recite in ruku and sajdah?
- How should the position of the hands and fingers be in sajdah? Should they be adjacent or separate, or does it not matter?
- Is it permissible to read verses of the Quran in ruku’ and sajdah?
- How is the prostration of Quran recitation (sajdah at-tilawah) performed when a verse of prostration (sajdah) is read? Is it permissible to delay this prostration?
- Will you explain the issue of performing a prayer by sitting though it is possible to stand? How should such a person make ruku’ and sajdah?
- When is sajdah at-tilawah (prostration of recitation) made when a sajdah verse is read (recited) in the Quran?
- Is it permissible to perform all prostration of recitations together after finishing reading the whole Quran?
- Will you write the Arabic scripts, pronunciations and meanings of the tasbihat (glorifications) that are said in ruku’ and sajdah?
- Sajdah as-Sahw
