Understanding Salat — Page 101
Ruku’ 101 towards God and worshipped Him alone. ’ ( Dictionary of the Holy Quran, pp. 341) When we take the posture of Ruk ū ‘ and say that Allah is ‘My Lord’ ( ى ِّ رَب ), we remove every other crutch or support we could lean on and take only Allah as our Lord. With both our words and action, we take Allah as our support. Once we are in Ruk ū ‘ , the glorification of Allah becomes a reassurance that the Lord we have taken for sup- port will never let us fall and is free of all imperfections. Hadrat Khalīfatul Masīh IV rta explained that when we refer to Allah as ‘my’ Lord, then it means that we should have a personal affinity with Allah; the attributes of Allah should be found in us. When we say ‘Holy is my Lord the Most Great/Lofty,’ we should ask ourselves if we are also trying to become holy, and great, and lofty. If not, then we cannot truly call Allah ‘my’ Lord because the word ‘my’ implies per- sonal affinity. ( Dhauqe ‘Ib ā dat, pp. 494, 498) ( Tadr ī s Nam ā z , pp. 35) When we say that Allah is holy and He is ‘my’ Lord, if we are not holy ourselves, then we would be disgracing the name of God by attributing ourselves to Him. To claim that Allah is ‘my’ Lord is a great responsibility. For example, most people would feel some shame in being caught lying. But if someone knew us personally as an Ahmadi Muslim and they had great respect for Ahmadi Muslims as honest peo- ple, then we would feel a greater aversion to lying because it could disgrace the Jamā‘at. Rather than being a sign that Affinity with Allah