As-Sajdah
| السجدة As-Sajdah The Prostration | |
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| Classification | Meccan |
| Position | Juzʼ 21 |
| Hizb no. | 42 |
| No. of verses | 30 |
| No. of Rukus | 3 |
| No. of Sajdahs | 1 |
| No. of words | 372 |
| No. of letters | 1523 |
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As-Sajdah (السجدة), is the 32nd chapter (sūrah) of the Quran with 30 verses (āyāt). The name of the chapter has been translated as ۩ 'prostration' or 'adoration' and is taken from the fifteenth verse, which mentions those who "... fall prostrate and hymn the praise of their Lord".
Regarding the timing and contextual background of the believed revelation, it is an earlier "Meccan surah", which means it is believed revealed in Mecca, instead of later in Medina. Theodor Nöldeke (d.1930), translator of Tabari (Arabic – German), estimated it as the 70th (Nöldeke chronology). The traditional Egyptian chronology puts the chapter as the 75th chapter by the order of revelation (after Quran 23).