Praying toward the Ka'bah itself while one can see it.

The questioner : Praying toward the Ka'bah itself while one can see it.

The Shaykh : ... they are around the Ka'bah in reality, such that every person, whether he is facing the western, eastern, northern, or southern direction, is at the same time facing what? A part of the Ka'bah; because he sees it. The scholars agree that if a person sees the Ka'bah itself, then if he prays toward anything other than it, he has no prayer. As for the one who does not see the Ka'bah, there is leeway in that matter, as he (peace be upon him) said: ; this is for the one who does not see the Ka'bah.
Now, you Muslims are praying with the Ka'bah in front of you, and the majority of the praying individuals are few in number who have intelligence and jurisprudence; they have no ruling. All of them are praying toward a direction other than the Ka'bah. This is here and this is here. The width of the cup is, for example, five centimeters? So this is sufficient, and the five centimeters are a part of it. This one is facing the Ka'bah itself, so his prayer is valid. As for the others who are praying... and so on. Say to those who are praying like this at the other corner and the opposite corner, it is very strange. This error could have been rectified. We spoke with some of the officials there when we were at the Islamic University.
It may have been what I feared would happen.
The second floor was built in what shape? A square or a rectangle. The matter can be rectified by tiling with a curved design so that it serves as a warning. Of course, the one who wants to tile, the tiling should not just be tiles; it must be done by either a jurist or with a jurist, right? We must help each other, each in his specialty. And none of this was applied, of course, to our great regret!! And this is because the adhan is an act of worship, so all types of worship that came in the authentic hadiths must be observed in it. We mentioned the mu'adhdhin's elevation, we mentioned his turning to the right and left, and we mention placing the two fingers in the ears. All of this must be observed. So we used to say it is not valid for a person to give the adhan with a loudspeaker like any person who lectures or speaks, like me now. He is not religiously obligated to observe special etiquettes. This is not permissible; so how do we come to say it is permissible to dispense with the mu'adhdhin by using a recorded adhan? This is disabling one of the Islamic rituals. If we are not good at disabling some of the rituals, we do not permit the mu'adhdhin to enter a room, even under the minbar, to give the adhan and be heard by the people, but the people do not see him. Is this a strength of Islam that a person gives the adhan at the top of his voice in a well—in a well!—and does not climb up when he is able to climb up?! This is not strength, and it is not... Islam at all. To Allah we complain. In any case, the matter is as He (Mighty and Majestic) said: .
We ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to forgive us all, and to inspire us to act according to the Book and the Sunnah, and to let us live as Muslims, and to let us die as believers, and to gather us with the truthful and sincere ones, upon whom there is no fear and who will not grieve, and all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.