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Rukūʿ (Arabic: رُكوع) refers to the bowing down following the recitation of the Qur'an in the standing position while praying according to Islamic ritual (salah). There is a consensus on the obligatory nature of the ruku. The position of ruku is established by bending over, putting one's hands on one's knees, and remaining in that position until the individual attains "calmness".
In Al-Ghazali's book Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship, he wrote about the ruku' by saying:[1]
The term ruku — roughly translated to "passage", "pericope" or "stanza" — is also used to denote a group of thematically related verses in the Qur'an. Longer suras (chapters) in the Qur'an are usually divided into several rukus.
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