The ruling on changing the direction of an airplane during prayer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: If I pray on an airplane facing the qiblah, and then the airplane changes direction during my prayer, do I remain facing my initial direction, or do I follow the qiblah?
Answer:
If you know the qiblah and are able to face it, it is obligatory for you to do so throughout the prayer. If you are unable to do so, pray according to what is easy for you, for wherever you turn, there is the face of Allah,[Al-Baqarah 2:115]. If you cannot, then pray in the direction that is easy for you, which is your qiblah. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: If I pray on an airplane facing the qiblah, and then the airplane changes direction during my prayer, do I remain facing my initial direction, or do I follow the qiblah?
Answer:
If you know the qiblah and are able to face it, it is obligatory for you to do so throughout the prayer. If you are unable to do so, pray according to what is easy for you, for wherever you turn, there is the face of Allah,
And to Allah belongs the east and the west. So wherever you [might] turn, there is the Face of Allah
وَلِلَّهِ الْمَشْرِقُ وَالْمَغْرِبُ فَأَيْنَمَا تُوَلُّوا فَثَمَّ وَجْهُ اللَّهِ
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 14-11-1436هـ — alfawzan.live (57:55)
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