Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
salamu aleykum,
As the Nabi SAW has said the closest place to Allah is the sajdah .
Is it allowed to formulate our own dua in our own language in sajdah after reciting 3 times subhana rabbiyal ala? And is it aloud to do this in every prayer (farz,sunnah,nafil)
Or do we have to read there dua known from hadeeth or quran?
please calrify your answer.
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
The sunna is to say the supplications of the ritual prayer in Arabic, and disliked to make them in other than Arabic. [Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar; Taqrirat al-Rafi`i; Rasa’il al-Lakhnawi]
When you don’t know specific supplications from the Qur’an and Sunna related to your situation, make general supplications that you do know by which you should intend the specific meanings you wish to ask for.
Please search in the SunniPath QA (http://qa.sunnipath.com) for: supplication in prayer.
And Allah alone gives success.