Ninth Word Fifth Point Glorification İn Bowing And Prostration

Thus, at such a time, for the Maghrib prayer, the human spirit, which by its nature is a mirror desirous for an Eternal Beauty, turns its face towards the throne of mightiness of the Eternal Undying One, the Enduring Everlasting One, Who performs these mighty works and turns and transforms these huge worlds, and declaring "Allah is Most Great!" over these transient beings, withdraws from them. Man clasps his hands in service of his Lord and rises in the presence of the Enduring Eternal One, and saying: "All praise be to Allah!" he praises and extols His faultless perfection, His peerless beauty, His infinite mercy. Declaring: " اِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَ اِيَّاكَ نَسْتَع۪ينُ You alone do we worship and from You alone we seek help!" (1:5), he proclaims his worship for and seeks help from His unassisted dominicality, His unpartnered Godhead, His unshared sovereignty. Then he bows, and declaring together with all the universe his weakness and powerlessness, his poverty and baseness before the infinite majesty, the limitless power, and utter mightiness of the Enduring Eternal One, he says: " سُبْحَانَ رَبِّىَ الْعَظ۪يمِ All glory to My Mighty Sustainer!" and glorifies his Sublime Sustainer. And prostrating before the undying beauty of His Essence, His unchanging sacred attributes, His constant everlasting perfection, and abandoning all things other than Him, man proclaims his love and worship in wonder and self-abasement. He finds an All-Compassionate Eternal One. And saying, " سُبْحَانَ رَبِّىَ الْاَعْلٰى All glory to my Exalted Sustainer!" he declares his Most High Sustainer to be free of decline and exalted above any fault.