I saw this video on instagram from a brand new turkish series .
The scene is from the newly released TRT original series Şule: Senin Hikâyen (Şule: Your Story), which premiered in May 2026. The viral clip features a deeply spiritual and poetic dialogue regarding the true soul of prayer (Salah). I really liked it, and I wanted to share it with everyone here.
It is very poetic in a way, a very Sufist way of looking into Islam (which I have no issues with at all - I sometimes quite enjoy their spirituality) ... but I think this made this video just so much more sweeter for me. I connected with it immediately. I hope you can feel it too. The video is in Turkish, with Arabic subtitles, so I attempted the translation below.
("Could you teach me not just the movements of prayer, but its soul as well?")
You start with the Niyyah (the intention to pray to Allah) and then you praise Allah "الله أكبر " Allahu Akbar (Allah is the greatest). Yu then place your right palm over your left palm across your chest (in an act of submission to the Creator and the act of worship).
The Explanation of the main acts (not all of them):
The actor explains that the physical postures of Salah are not random, but actually form the shapes of Arabic letters that spell out the word "Adam" (آدم), which is the name of the prophet Adam but in Arabic it also means human:
Kiyam (Standing Straight): He states that standing straight is to be like the letter Elif (ا)—upright, true, and completely steadfast before Allah. He says in the video - Kiyam is the sign of standing before Allah on the day of Judgment after we leave ur graves. Which means you are rejecting everything there is in unya (the world) as you only stand before Him (swt) as a witness to His greatness.
Ruku (Bending): Bending forward at the waist forms the shape of the letter Dal (د). You bow down only to His magnificence, to Him alone. You bow down before the greatness of the Just One. As if you are saying that, ya Allah, you are so great, I bend before your greatness like a branch of a tree - in the shape of the letter 'dal'.
Sajdah/ Sujood (Prostration): Bowing down to the floor forms the shape of the letter Mim (م). When you prostrate, you go down to the earth, but in reality, you get elevated. Prostration is not putting yourself at the feet, but rather getting your head (your mind) into a state beyond the presence of your mind. When you put your head on the ground, all barriers between Him (Allah) and you drop. The Prophetﷺ says that the closest a servant can get to Allah is during prostration/ Sujood. In appearance, it is the moment you look like you are at the lowest form, but the truth is that you become at the peak (of your worship). There is a verse in the quran "وَاسْجُدْ وَاقْتَرِبْ" (Wasjud waqtarib) prostrate and draw near [to Allah]." -- and this is the position we would be the closest ever to Allah swt.
He beautifully concludes that when these postures come together, they spell out "Adam", meaning that a human only truly becomes a fulfilled human ("Adam") through the act of performing Salah. No gender, no character. Just a human.
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