Salaam Friends,

Welcome back to our mini-sujood series which began with a du‘a intention: to spend longer in sujood, not as a productivity goal, but as a desire for deeper connection with Allah.

We thought about how salah resists the logic of capitalism entirely, and that sujood cannot be commodified. There is nothing efficient or marketable about placing your head on the ground purely because Allah asked.

Extending sujood slows the entire salah, revealing that sujood is the heart of the prayer, the place where peace, presence, and du’a naturally live.

We explored why one might want to stay longer in sujood:

🔹 it is the nearest we come to Allah in this world

🔹 it humbles the ego and recentres worth with Allah alone

🔹 it resists a culture obsessed with speed and efficiency

🔹 even a few extra seconds are a voluntary act of love toward Allah

The invitation so far has been gentle, manageable, and non-perfectionist:

And the guiding question holding it all together?

“Why do I want to do this?”

Today, we wanted to linger with the why a little longer, in a way that feels lived, tender, and real. So we’ve gathered a few of the beautiful reflections (and visuals) on sajdah we’ve come across from real people across the internet, in the hope that they continue to inspire us, in sha Allah.

Here you go. Enjoy.

Minara’s reflection: Humility is never invisible with Allah. In fact, nearness to Allah doesn't come from elevation or visibility, but from humility and surrender.

Minara’s reflection: Sujood does not always remove the burden, but it softens the weight of carrying it alone. What bows with us does not need to rise unchanged.

Minara’s reflection: Some worries have no language subhan Allah. In sujood, the body speaks for the heart, laying down what the tongue cannot explain.

Imagine your salah without sujood.

Pause there for a moment. Can you even comprehend it? What would that prayer feel like?

We make ruku’ and that is one type of submission isn’t it?

Yes, in rukuʿ, we bow before Allah, glorifying His greatness and submitting to His command. It is the posture of awe.

But sujood is something else entirely.

In sujood, submission turns into closeness. We are lower, yet nearer. Our forehead meets the ground, and with it the illusion of distance disappears. This is not only a response to His greatness, it is a response to His invitation.

Some scholars reflect that if salah were made only of ruku’, it would be filled with awe but marked by distance. Allah’s mercy is that He completes the prayer with sujood, teaching us that the King we bow before is also the Lord who welcomes us close, despite our flaws and shortcomings.

The perfection of salah lies here: in being allowed — even invited — to fall at His feet.

Inspired by reflections from Yaqeen Institute and Imam Omar Suleiman’s Secrets of Salah series.

Next week we’ll return with part 4 of this mini-series where we’ll dwell on the verbalisations in sujood in sha Allah.

Before we close, we wanted to return to something we shared with you last week.

This Ramadan, we’re inviting our community to support Minara through LaunchGood’s RC30 challenge, a way of giving a small amount of charity each day throughout the month. It’s simple, sustainable, and rooted in the belief that consistency, like prayer itself, transforms us.

And transformative it will be for Minara in moving from prototype to production:

Read more here: Minara - Limited Pre-Order – My Minara

As a thank you, the first people who sign up to support Minara through RC30, with a minimum donation of $2 each day of Ramadan, will receive The Prayer Room, a reflection card deck designed to help deepen your relationship with salah.

If this feels like something you’d like to be part of this Ramadan, you can learn more and join us below 🤍.

See you next week in sha Allah!

Love and du’as,

The Minara Team