Urdu Dictionary

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Sajda-e-Tilawat

सज्दा-ए-तिलावत

said SAJ-da-e-ti-LAA-wat

also written: sajdah tilawat

Meaning

The prostration made on reciting or hearing certain verses of the Quran.

See it in the verse

Sajda-e-Tilawat in Iqbal’s couplets

Ye ek sajda jise tu garaan samajhta hai
Hazaar sajdon se deta hai aadmi ko nijaat

This one act of devotion, which you find so heavy to make — it frees a person from a thousand servile bowings.

Freedom · Selfhood

Related words

Sujood

Prostration in worship, especially the repeated prostrations of the ritual prayer.

Tilaawat

The reverent recitation of the Quran.

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