The jurisprudential rule of prostration from the point of view of Shia and Sunni scholars and the view of Imamia

Abstract

Prostration means submission and humiliation and the highest submission and humiliation is putting the forehead on the ground. Sajdah is the Islamic term means placing the forehead on the ground while praying. Sajdah in the term of jurisprudence is one of the pillars of prayer, which is performed after bowing or while recting some verses of the Quran by placing the seven body parts (forehead, palms, knees, sixty both feet) is placed on the ground and reciting. There is no disagreement among Muslims regarding the obligation of prostration I prayer and performing it twice in each rak’ah, and all the existing differences are only in the field of its branches and rulings such as quality, pillars, conditions, obstacles and remembrance.

From the shia point of view, prostration should be on the ground, dirt, stones, and non-edible things that grow from the ground, and prostration on dirt is the best of all. According to shia, the beloved prophet and early Muslims also prostrated on dirt, stones, and mats. Because the floors of mosques and houses were made of pebbles and dirt, and in the end it was covered with mats, and they also prostrated on the same dirt, sand or mats on the floor of mosques and rooms. In order to prove their opinion, shia has argued with many traditions of imams and believes that they have attacked Imamia as an escuse ant attributed the heresy they committed to shia in a different way.