\n I was with Amir-ul-moumaneen -asws when my mola -asws saw a man praying...

\n I was with Amir-ul-moumaneen -asws when my mola -asws saw a man praying, and asked him, do you understand the interpretation of your prayers? He replied, O my master! Is the interpretation of prayers not included in the acts of worship?

Amir-ul-moumaneen -asws then said Allah -azwj sent down Prophet Mohammed -saww as well as other Prophets (in the past) in order to explain the true essence and interpretation, reasons behind Divine revelations and the way to proclaim each act of worship.\u00a0 He then said, please teach me O my master, what is the interpretation of Salat?\u00a0 Amir-ul-moumaneen -asws replied, your exclaiming of \u2018Allah ho Akbar\u2019 in \u2018Taqbeer-tul-Ahram\u2019 [1] , it means Allah is Greatest, beyond our comprehension, in the second Takbeer (Allah ho Akbar) we admit His greatness and also it cannot be described by the means of signs (i.e., by hands).\u00a0 We (recite it) third time to admit He -azwj is beyond our perception to give Him -azwj Profile or create His -azwj Image.\u00a0 In the fourth one we admit He has been before the start of the time and can never be influenced by any deterioration or decay.

In the fifth Takbeer we admit His -azwj essence is unrecognisable and He -azwj is everywhere without being part of something or something being dwelled into Him -azwj . In the sixth one we recognise His attributes neither subject to variations nor evolution with the passage of time.\u00a0 In the seventh one we admit our failure in His recognition through our six senses.

Extend your neck when you bow down (Rukku) and offer your head to be chopped down for His -azwj cause.\u00a0 Upon lifting our head and standing up we recite \u2018Samay\u2026..\u2019 [2] and thank Allah who brought us into Life out of non-existance.\u00a0 And upon performing the first prostration, we offer our prostration to You -azwj and acknowledge He -azwj has created us out of dust and thank Him -azwj (when raising our head after prostration) that He -azwj has extracted us out of earth.\u00a0 Upon performing the second prostration we admit we will die and become part of dust and upon raising our heads (after prostration) we recognise He -azwj will resurrect us.

And when you sit on your left hand side while your right foot crosses the sole of your left foot, we symbolically indicate that we have established the righteous path and have annihilated the falsehood.