Arabic · noun · Faith & Sacred History

Sujood

सुजूद
said su-jood
also written: Sajda
Meaning

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

Literally: prostration in prayer

How Iqbal uses it

Sajda is the act of prostration in worship, the body laid low before God. Iqbal makes the single sajda to God the source of a believer's refusal to prostrate before any earthly power, the inner discipline from which outward freedom springs. The one who bows to God alone, in his vision, stands erect before the whole world.