Root: س ج د
Affectionate surrender of one's will and freedom/liberty-Forehead on the ground.
1) Basic initial meanings: Feel of reverence and its expression through physical gesture-body language-lowering of head in state chin moving towards chest and gaze going down. It is a relational word-a relationship between the Reverent and the Revered. Reverent and the Revered could be any object or person.
2) Advanced meanings in the changed relational field when the Revered is the Only One-The Absolute-The Only Independent-The Self Subsisting-The Creator-The Supreme Exalted-Sovereign Sustainer Lord of the Universes, and the Reverent are all objects and living-all that exists in the created realm. Here the meanings, while retaining the basic perception, advance into its extreme limits-Prostration.
3) Sublime and sincere Prostration of human beings-Bowing and curving to lay the forehead on the Earth denoting absolute surrender and sublime adoration.
4) Laying of Forehead on ground relays non verbal signal of surrender of granted Freedom and Will of decision and self governing to the Sustainer Lord.
5) The Laying of Forehead on ground yields bridging the distance to get nearer to the Sustainer Lord.
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The basic perception infolded and signification conveyed by this Root, in the words of Ibne Faris [died 1005], and others is as under:
(سجد) السين والجيم والدال أصلٌ واحدٌ مطّرد يدلّ على تطامُن وذلّ. يقال سجد، إذا تطَامَنَ. وكلُّ ما ذلَّ فقد سجد. قال أبو عمرو: أسْجَدَ الرَّجُل، إذا طأطأَ رأسَهُ
سجد (الصّحّاح في اللغة)
سَجَدَ: خضع
أَسْجَدَ الرَجُلُ: طَأْطَأَ رَأْسَهُ وانْحَنى
ومنه سُجودُ الصلاة، وهو وضع الجَبْهة على الأَرْضِ
This is, more or less, explained in Lane's Lexicon, along with other quotes from Lexicons, in this quote:..........
Affectionate surrender of one's will and freedom/liberty-Forehead on the ground
Affectionate surrender of one's will and freedom/liberty-Forehead on the ground.
1) Basic initial meanings: Feel of reverence and its expression through physical gesture-body language-lowering of head in state chin moving towards chest and gaze going down. It is a relational word-a relationship between the Reverent and the Revered. Reverent and the Revered could be any object or person.
2) Advanced meanings in the changed relational field when the Revered is the Only One-The Absolute-The Only Independent-The Self Subsisting-The Creator-The Supreme Exalted-Sovereign Sustainer Lord of the Universes, and the Reverent are all objects and living-all that exists in the created realm. Here the meanings, while retaining the basic perception, advance into its extreme limits-Prostration.
3) Sublime and sincere Prostration of human beings-Bowing and curving to lay the forehead on the Earth denoting absolute surrender and sublime adoration.
4) Laying of Forehead on ground relays non verbal signal of surrender of granted Freedom and Will of decision and self governing to the Sustainer Lord.
5) The Laying of Forehead on ground yields bridging the distance to get nearer to the Sustainer Lord.
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The basic perception infolded and signification conveyed by this Root, in the words of Ibne Faris [died 1005], and others is as under:
(سجد) السين والجيم والدال أصلٌ واحدٌ مطّرد يدلّ على تطامُن وذلّ. يقال سجد، إذا تطَامَنَ. وكلُّ ما ذلَّ فقد سجد. قال أبو عمرو: أسْجَدَ الرَّجُل، إذا طأطأَ رأسَهُ
سجد (الصّحّاح في اللغة)
سَجَدَ: خضع
أَسْجَدَ الرَجُلُ: طَأْطَأَ رَأْسَهُ وانْحَنى
ومنه سُجودُ الصلاة، وهو وضع الجَبْهة على الأَرْضِ
This is, more or less, explained in Lane's Lexicon, along with other quotes from Lexicons, in this quote:..........
Affectionate surrender of one's will and freedom/liberty-Forehead on the ground