{"id":20795,"date":"2021-03-19T22:26:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=20795"},"modified":"2021-03-19T22:26:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:26:20","slug":"is-it-mustahab-to-go-down-into-sajdah-keeping-the-back-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/is-it-mustahab-to-go-down-into-sajdah-keeping-the-back-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Mustahab To Go Down Into Sajdah Keeping the Back Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 05068<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: Maulana Shadman Ahmed<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Question<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">While going from Qawmah into Sajdah:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u200c<\/strong>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is it Mustahab and preferable to go down into Sajdah keeping the back straight or should one bend the back slightly?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u200c<\/strong>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is it preferable to keep the hands on the knees while going into Sajdah or should the hands be left loose on the sides as they were in the position of Qawmah?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">While going into Sajdah from Qawmah it is preferable to keep the back straight as any bending counts as additional ruku (Ibn Abideen, <em>Radd Muhtar, <\/em>vol. 3, pg. 320-321; <em>Fatawa Tatarkhaniyyah,<\/em> vol. 1, pg. 543). It is preferable to keep the hands on the knees while going into Sajdah as mentioned in a hadith \u201cTake assistance from the knees\u201d (<em>Fatawa Mahmudiyyah<\/em>, vol. 5, pg. 218).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Written by Maulana Shadman Ahmed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 05068 &nbsp; Answered by: Maulana Shadman Ahmed &nbsp; Question &nbsp; While going from Qawmah into Sajdah: \u200c1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is it Mustahab and preferable to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20931,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions\/20931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}