Facing the Qiblah in the Obligatory Prayer on an Airplane
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If a traveler on an airplane intends to perform the obligatory prayer and fears that the time will end before he arrives, is it obligatory for him to face the Qiblah at the beginning of his prayer?
Answer:
If the airplane lands at the end of the second time, he intends to combine the prayers by delaying them, and if he lands at the airport, he prays the combined delayed prayer. But if the airplane continues the journey for a long time and the time for the second prayer ends while he is on the airplane, he prays on the airplane as best as he can.Sunan Abi Dawud 4643Sahih in chain (Al-Albani) He prays on the airplane as best as he can. [Al-Baqarah 2:286] Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If a traveler on an airplane intends to perform the obligatory prayer and fears that the time will end before he arrives, is it obligatory for him to face the Qiblah at the beginning of his prayer?
Answer:
If the airplane lands at the end of the second time, he intends to combine the prayers by delaying them, and if he lands at the airport, he prays the combined delayed prayer. But if the airplane continues the journey for a long time and the time for the second prayer ends while he is on the airplane, he prays on the airplane as best as he can.
Fear Allah as much as possible
اتقوا الله ما استطعتمAllah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity
لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من أبواب صلاة التطوع — islamhouse.com (1:02:36)
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