As-Sajdah

Sura 32 of the Quran
السجدة‎ ; As-Sajdah; The Prostration
Arabic text; English translation;
Classification	Meccan
Position	Juzʼ 21
No. of Rukus	3
No. of verses	30
No. of Sajdahs	1
No. of words	372
No. of letters	1523
Opening muqaṭṭaʻāt	ʾAlif Lām Mīm الم
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As-Sajdah (السجدة), is the 32nd chapter (sūrah) of the Quran with 30 verses (āyāt). The name of the chapter has been translated as ۩ 'prostration' ^[1] or 'adoration'^[2] and is taken from the fifteenth verse, which mentions those who "... fall prostrate and hymn the praise of their Lord".^[1]

Regarding the timing and contextual background of the believed revelation, it is an earlier "Meccan surah", which means it is believed revealed in Mecca, instead of later in Medina. Theodor Nöldeke (d.1930), translator of Tabari (Arabic – German), estimated it as the 70th (Nöldeke chronology).^[3] The traditional Egyptian chronology puts the chapter as the 75th chapter by the order of revelation (after Quran 23).

^ ^a ^b Lumbard, Joseph (April 2015). 32, Prostration, al-Sajdah, The Study Quran. San Francisco: HarperOne.
^ Sale, George (1891). The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed ... New York: John B. Alden.
^ Ernst 2011, p. 39.

[LSQ-1] Lumbard, Joseph (April 2015). 32, Prostration, al-Sajdah, The Study Quran. San Francisco: HarperOne.

[GS-2] Sale, George (1891). The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed ... New York: John B. Alden.

[FOOTNOTEErnst201139-3] Ernst 2011, p. 39.

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السجدة‎ As-Sajdah The Prostration
Arabic text English translation
Classification	Meccan
Position	Juzʼ 21
No. of Rukus	3
No. of verses	30
No. of Sajdahs	1
No. of words	372
No. of letters	1523
Opening muqaṭṭaʻāt	ʾAlif Lām Mīm الم
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