How to Pray on an Airplane and Determining the Direction of the Qiblah
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Question:
A questioner asks, Honorable Shaykh, and says: We request that you kindly shed light on how to pray on an airplane, as well as the issue of determining the qiblah.
Answer:
Praying on an airplane is only done in a specific case, if it is possible to wait until the airplane lands, even if it is in the time of the second prayer. For example, the time for the midday prayer (Zuhr) has arrived for him, and he cannot pray the midday prayer in its time.
But the airplane will land before the sun sets, so he delays the midday prayer to be combined with the afternoon prayer (Asr), praying it with Asr, even at the end of the time of Asr, if he lands in the rain or arrives at the city. This is combining by delay. This is if the time for the first prayer arrives while he is in flight. As for if the time for the first prayer arrives while he is at the airport, after he has not yet boarded, he prays the first prayer and combines it with the second by combining early. For example, the time for the midday prayer arrives while he is at the airport, so he prays the midday prayer and brings forward the afternoon prayer with it, combining early.
And he would only have one prayer to perform. It is also possible to delay the sunset prayer (Maghrib) until the night prayer (Isha), even before the dawn breaks, so he would have a span from the midday prayer until before the dawn breaks. All of this has a span and a wide time. He brings forward the afternoon prayer with the midday prayer and prays them combined early, and delays the sunset prayer with the night prayer and prays them combined by delay, even at the end of their time, so he would have a lot of span in the flight. As for if the airplane does not land until after the time of the second prayer has passed, the passing of the time of the second prayer, then he prays on the airplane. He prays on the airplane, and asks the pilots about the direction of the qiblah, and prays on the airplane, and does not delay the prayer from its time.
A questioner asks, Honorable Shaykh, and says: We request that you kindly shed light on how to pray on an airplane, as well as the issue of determining the qiblah.
Answer:
Praying on an airplane is only done in a specific case, if it is possible to wait until the airplane lands, even if it is in the time of the second prayer. For example, the time for the midday prayer (Zuhr) has arrived for him, and he cannot pray the midday prayer in its time.
But the airplane will land before the sun sets, so he delays the midday prayer to be combined with the afternoon prayer (Asr), praying it with Asr, even at the end of the time of Asr, if he lands in the rain or arrives at the city. This is combining by delay. This is if the time for the first prayer arrives while he is in flight. As for if the time for the first prayer arrives while he is at the airport, after he has not yet boarded, he prays the first prayer and combines it with the second by combining early. For example, the time for the midday prayer arrives while he is at the airport, so he prays the midday prayer and brings forward the afternoon prayer with it, combining early.
And he would only have one prayer to perform. It is also possible to delay the sunset prayer (Maghrib) until the night prayer (Isha), even before the dawn breaks, so he would have a span from the midday prayer until before the dawn breaks. All of this has a span and a wide time. He brings forward the afternoon prayer with the midday prayer and prays them combined early, and delays the sunset prayer with the night prayer and prays them combined by delay, even at the end of their time, so he would have a lot of span in the flight. As for if the airplane does not land until after the time of the second prayer has passed, the passing of the time of the second prayer, then he prays on the airplane. He prays on the airplane, and asks the pilots about the direction of the qiblah, and prays on the airplane, and does not delay the prayer from its time.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-38-قضايا فقهية - 02|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (21:59)
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