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  • If the ultimate goal is to convince people to embrace the many varieties of liturgical offenses, the sajdah is the perfect place to start.

    Kneel: No butts about it Luxury Home 2008

  • If the ultimate goal is to convince people to embrace the many varieties of liturgical offenses, the sajdah is the perfect place to start.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Luxury Home 2008

  • Lose consciousness, flop down into sajdah, and—Allah willing—consciousness returns!

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Kneeling in prayer is a modified form of ritual prostration and, as such, has analogues in the sajdah prostrations of Muslims at prayer, the panipata prostration of Buddhism, the Mutha Dheek of Sikhs, and the zemnoy poklon of the Eastern Orthodox.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Kneeling in prayer is a modified form of ritual prostration and, as such, has analogues in the sajdah prostrations of Muslims at prayer, the panipata prostration of Buddhism, the Mutha Dheek of Sikhs, and the zemnoy poklon of the Eastern Orthodox.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Lose consciousness, flop down into sajdah, and—Allah willing—consciousness returns!

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Kneeling in prayer is a modified form of ritual prostration and, as such, has analogues in the sajdah prostrations of Muslims at prayer, the panipata prostration of Buddhism, the Mutha Dheek of Sikhs, and the zemnoy poklon of the Eastern Orthodox.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Lose consciousness, flop down into sajdah, and—Allah willing—consciousness returns!

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • As one who owns a blog but does not entirely subsist in the blogosphere, I have received several forwarded emails regarding the rantings of a "Sandy" who defends the sajdah position.

    Intelligent input vs Pathetic Emotivism Luxury Home 2008

  • If sajdah-ing is good, wouldn't self-mutilation be better?

    No ifs, ands or butts Luxury Home 2008

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