The direction of prayer for one who finds the east and west equally distant
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what about a person who is in a location where the direction to the east and the direction to the west are equal? Which direction should he pray?
Answer:
In which direction are you facing? A person is either in the east or in the west. If he is in the east, he prays toward the direction where the Ka'bah is located, and he estimates it. If it is the opposite, and he is in the west, he prays toward the east, because the Ka'bah is in the direction of the east relative to him.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what about a person who is in a location where the direction to the east and the direction to the west are equal? Which direction should he pray?
Answer:
In which direction are you facing? A person is either in the east or in the west. If he is in the east, he prays toward the direction where the Ka'bah is located, and he estimates it. If it is the opposite, and he is in the west, he prays toward the east, because the Ka'bah is in the direction of the east relative to him.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 014 من 123 / شرح كتاب زاد المستقنع / الصلاة / شروط الصلاة / صالح الفوزان / الفقه / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:10:36)
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