I got this and was wondering what the rights and wrongs were..?
The Quran has mentioned the word sujood, prostration no less then 90 times in the glorious Quran. When do you do sujood in the Salah? Normally when you stand erect, blood does flow into the brain but it is not sufficient for a healthy brain. During Salah when you go into sujood extra blood flows into the brain, which is very important for a healthy brain. When you do sujood, this extra blood supply to the skin on the face helps prevent diseases such as chilblain etc.
When you do sujood, there is drainage of sinuses and there are fewer chances that a person will have sinusitis, that is inflammation of the sinus, this drainage of module sinus, of the frontal sinus, and a person has less chances of having inflammation of the sinus, that is sinusitis.
There are various benefits. For example, when a person does sujood even the bronchitis's, the secretion of the bronchitis, they get drained, there are less chances of having bronchitis.
When a person breathes normally only two thirds of the capacity of the lung is exhaled out, the remaining one third remain in the lung as a residual air, now when you do sujood the abdominal visra, they press against the diaphragm and the diaphragm presses against the lower part of the lungs, the lower lobes, and when you breath during sujood even this one third residual air is aired out and that's very important for a healthy lung. There are less chances of having diseases of the lungs.
When you do sujood, there is increased venes return there is less chance of having hernia, etc. Due to posture in sujood there is less chances of having hemorrhoid, that is piles.
In a salah we stand up and we sit down, do qayam, rukuh, sujood and when we stand up from same position the weight is localized on the bottom of the feet and the calve muscle and the thigh muscle are activated and they increase the blood supply to the lower part of the body, which is very important. Further we do various postures like standing erect, bowing down, prostrating, the vertebra column takes various postures and there are less chances of having disease of the vertebrae, of the spine.
There are medical benefits and you can give a talk only on this topic. But we Muslims, we offer Salah to thank Allah (SWT), to praise Him. These are just side dishes. They are like dessert. You know it may attract a person who is a non-Muslim, towards Salah but our main meal, our main biryani, our main course is to thank Allah (SWT) and to obey the commandments of Allah and the Prophet. That is the reason we offer Salah.
I'm not a scientist so I can't confirm from a scientific point of view but I do believe these are true. First because I've personally experienced it for the drainage of the sinuses. Secondly because if you study Islam, you will notice that all orders given (for us to accomplish) by Allah and His Prophet (saw) have their own benefits (side dishes like you call it) in one way or the other.
We do all actions only to please Allah, and these actions have effects on us, be they medical, social, etc.
Take miswaak for example. Why do you perform it? Because it is a Sunnah. So you do it to please Allah. But see all the good effects it has on our health.
Islam is loaded with such examples but perhaps we are so used to doing them that we don't reflect on the wisdom behind them. Afterall Allah is the All-Knower and our Creator so he knows best what's good for us.
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