Invocations during Ruki' (bowing in prayer)

دعاء الركوع

1. 1Recite 3 times

   ((سُبْحانَ رَبِّيَ الْعَظِيمِ)). ثلاث مرَّاتٍ.

   Transliteration: Subhana rabbiyal-AAatheem (three times)

   Translation: How perfect my Lord is, The Supreme.’(three times)

2. 2

   سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّنَا وَبِحَمْدِكَ، اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِي

   Transliteration: Subhanakal-lahumma rabbana wabihamdik, allahummagh-fir lee

   Translation: How perfect You are O Allah, our Lord and I praise You. O Allah, forgive me.

3. 3

   سُبُّوُحٌ، قُدُّوسٌ، رَبُّ المَلاَئِكَةِ وَالرُّوحِ

   Transliteration: Subboohun quddoos, rabbul-mala-ikati warrooh.

   Translation: Perfect and Holy (He is), Lord of the angles and the Rooh (i.e. Jibra-eel).

4. 4

   اللَّهُمَّ لَكَ رَكَعْتُ، وَبِكَ آمَنْتُ، وَلَكَ أَسْلَمْتُ، خَشَعَ لَكَ سَمْعِي، وَبَصَرِي، وَمُخِّي، وَعَــــظْمِي، وَعَصَبِي، [وَمَا استَقَلَّتْ بِهِ قَدَمِي]

   Transliteration: Allahumma laka rakaAAt, wabika amant, walaka aslamt, khashaAAa laka samAAee, wabasaree, wamukhkhee, waAAathmee, waAAasabee, wamas-taqalla bihi qadamee.

   Translation: O Allah, unto You I have bowed, and in You I have believed, and to You I have submitted. My hearing, sight, mind, bones, tendons and what my feet carry are humbled before You.

5. 5

   سُبْحَانَ ذِي الْجَبَرُوتِ، وَالْمَلَكُوتِ، وَالْكِبْرِيَاءِ، وَالْعَظَمَةِ

   Transliteration: Subhana thil-jabaroot, walmalakoot, walkibriya/, walAAathamah.

   Translation: How perfect He is, The Possessor of total power, sovereignty, magnificence and grandeur.