The obligatory prayer on a mount and changing its direction
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh (may Allah preserve you), is the obligatory prayer on a mount permissible? And what is the ruling if its direction changes? Is the one praying required to turn to the right and to the left?
Answer:
He is required to dismount and pray on the ground, and he does not pray on the mount for the obligatory prayer, facing the qiblah, except if he is unable, such as one who is tied to a mount due to his illness, or his inability to dismount, or like one in a wilderness who cannot dismount because of the floods beneath him, and cannot pray on the ground because the flood has covered it. In this case, he prays on the mount, stops it, directs it toward the qiblah, faces the qiblah, and prays toward the qiblah on the mount.
Your Eminence the Shaykh (may Allah preserve you), is the obligatory prayer on a mount permissible? And what is the ruling if its direction changes? Is the one praying required to turn to the right and to the left?
Answer:
He is required to dismount and pray on the ground, and he does not pray on the mount for the obligatory prayer, facing the qiblah, except if he is unable, such as one who is tied to a mount due to his illness, or his inability to dismount, or like one in a wilderness who cannot dismount because of the floods beneath him, and cannot pray on the ground because the flood has covered it. In this case, he prays on the mount, stops it, directs it toward the qiblah, faces the qiblah, and prays toward the qiblah on the mount.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم [ برنامج إذاعي ]، بداية من باب حجة من رأى فرض البعيد إصابة الجهة لا العين — islamhouse.com (3:53)
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