Dear Islamic brothers! Many more pious deeds can be found in this booklet in question-and-answer format. If we act upon these, we will be successful in carrying out good deeds and avoiding sins.

May Allah grant us the ability to act upon this.

 اٰمِیْن بِجَاہِ النَّبِیِّ الْاَمِیْن صلَّی اللہ عَلَیْہِ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

The Importance of One Prostration

Abū Bakhtarā رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه reports:

Sayyidunā Salmān Fārsi رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُ used to have a female servant. He once asked her to offer salah, but she refused. “O lady!”, he then said, “Make sajdah but once!” She again refused. Someone asked, “O Abū ʿAbdullah! What benefit would she have received from one sajdah?” He explained, “If she had performed sajdah once, she would have been given the ability to perform all five salah.”^[1]

3 hadith regarding the virtues of sajdah

  اللہُ اَکْبَر! O devotees of the Messenger! Having the ability to prostrate/perform sajdah before Allah is a great honour.

*   The Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: “A servant becomes extremely close to his Lord when in sajdah, so make abundant duʿā in this state.”^[2]

*   A hadith narrated in Muslim explains how the final Prophet          صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, “Perform sajdah in abundance, because