the Quran in the states of prayer. Standing involves reciting the Opening of the Book and whatever of His speech is easy along with it. Bowing involves His words, exalted is He, “So glorify in the name of your Lord, the Magnificent” [al-Waqiʿah 56:74]. In bowing, then, the worshipper remembers his Lord in prayer through His revealed speech.
Likewise, in prostration he says, “Glory be to my Lord, the Most High.” When His words, “Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High,” were sent down, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Put this in your prostration.”
God commanded us to remember Him and thank Him. The Opening of the Book combines remembrance and thanksgiving, and the worshipper recites it standing. Thanksgiving is expressed in “Praise belongs to God, Lord of the worlds,” which is itself remembrance through thanksgiving, extending to every remembrance in it and throughout the prayer. Remembering God and thanking Him in prayer is greater and more excellent than remembering Him, glory be to Him, and thanking Him outside prayer, for prayer is the finest of the prescribed acts of worship. Prayer has conferred this excellence upon remembrance, and it returns to the one who remembers.
Anyone wishing to remember God, exalted is He, and thank Him in speech and action should be praying and should use the remembrances sent down in the Quran alone. He should intend the remembrance and supplication in the Quran, so as to discharge his responsibility. Whoever remembers Him through His speech discharges his responsibility for what is ascribed to God in that remembrance. Thus, while remembering, he is also reciting His speech. He uses the glorifications that are in the Quran,
