SAJDA/ SUBMISSION

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The sajda is the climax of namaz/ salat. It physically demonstrates submission. 
In sajda, you put your face on the ground. Your face is your identity. It is what distinguishes you, what makes you stand out, makes you -- you. 

To go in sajda is to become faceless and defenseless. It is to give up all your identities - name, position, family, ethnicity, gender, nationality, achievements, ideologies, beliefs. It is to give up your agendas, plans and desires. 

It is to give up any illusion of being someone, of being in-charge, of having a say. 

The sajda says: i give up, i submit, i dissolve, i disappear. I know nothing. I can do nothing. I want nothing. I am nothing.