NOTEPAD IV-sajada-sam
NOTEPAD IV-sajada-sam . Notepads comprise observations which informed parts of my process, and are included for interest. sajada — to submit It is true that in standard Arabic sajada can denote the lowering of one’s body towards the ground. For example, it can be used to describe a camel lowering itself to allow a rider to mount. However, the salient point is that of submission to an authority or directive, a condition for which the physical process is a mere expression. To illustrate the distinction, let’s say a camel were to lower itself not on command prior to a race but for some reason of its own during a race. This would be the same physical action as before the race, but it would not be sajada because the context would show it to be an act of rebellion or defiance, or one arising from some other motivation known to the camel and not originating with the rider. The question, then, is in what sense the Qur’an us...