I was in the second rak'ah facing a direction other than the qiblah, so one of them directed me toward the qiblah, and I completed the prayer. Is my action permissible?

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. The listener, Adnan Ba'ith, is pleased and says: If I was in prayer, I was in the second rak'ah, and I was facing a direction other than the qiblah. One of the people came and directed me toward the qiblah. I did not repeat the prayer; rather, I turned toward the qiblah and accepted the prayer. Is this action permissible? If you entered the prayer and you exerted effort in seeking the qiblah, and you had no one to inform you, and no one was present, and you had no signs and no adhan

Answer:
indicating the qiblah, and you were in a desert, for example, and you prayed according to what your ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) led you to, and then another person came and guided you to the direction of the qiblah, your prayer is valid. That is, you turn toward the qiblah to which he guided you, if you trust his statement, and your prayer will be valid. However, if you were negligent in seeking the qiblah and did not exert effort, and did not ask, and you prayed in a direction other than the qiblah at the beginning of your prayer, then you must restart the prayer from the beginning. This is because you entered the prayer facing a direction other than the qiblah, and you did not exert the effort that is required to reach knowledge of the qiblah, if you had someone to guide you to it, or if you had evidence by which you could know the qiblah, such as looking at the sun, looking at the moon, and looking at the stars if it is night. Yes. And looking at the sun if it is day, and the shadow, all of these are valid. Yes.