The ruling on one who prayed in a direction other than the qiblah on land, then it became clear to him
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Question:
May Allah bless you. Another question from one of the brothers, Abu Ibrahim, who says: Shaykh, we prayed in a direction other than the qiblah while we were on land for several days, approximately 15 days, and it became clear to us afterwards that we had deviated from the qiblah. Do we have to repeat the prayers, now that we have arrived in Riyadh?
Answer:
Do not repeat it, for you have prayed and exerted yourselves, and you prayed according to what you reached through your ijtihad (independent legal reasoning), so your prayer is valid. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:115] Yes.
May Allah bless you. Another question from one of the brothers, Abu Ibrahim, who says: Shaykh, we prayed in a direction other than the qiblah while we were on land for several days, approximately 15 days, and it became clear to us afterwards that we had deviated from the qiblah. Do we have to repeat the prayers, now that we have arrived in Riyadh?
Answer:
Do not repeat it, for you have prayed and exerted yourselves, and you prayed according to what you reached through your ijtihad (independent legal reasoning), so your prayer is valid. Allah the Exalted said:
And to Allah belongs the east and the west. So wherever you [might] turn, there is the Face of Allah. Indeed, Allah is all-Encompassing and Knowing.
وَلِلَّهِ الْمَشْرِقُ وَالْمَغْرِبُ فَأَيْنَمَا تُوَلُّوا فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَاسِعٌ عَلِيمٌ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (188) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1440-07-28] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (15:47)
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