If you are in a country where you do not know the direction of the qiblah, what should you do?
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The Shaykh : All right, if you are in a country where you do not know the direction of the qiblah, do you exercise independent legal reasoning or do you ask?
The scholars said: The person in the city should ask and not exercise independent legal reasoning, because independent legal reasoning is only resorted to when there is a need for it.
So you ask the people of the country; you ask the owner of the house you are renting where the qiblah is. If he informs you and he is trustworthy, you act on his information.
All right, what if you prayed based on your independent legal reasoning and it turned out to be wrong?
The well-known view among the scholars of knowledge is that you repeat the prayer. They said: Because the resident is not in a place for independent legal reasoning, unlike if you were traveling and you exercised independent legal reasoning regarding the qiblah and it turned out to be wrong, then you do not repeat the prayer, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:115].
The scholars said: The person in the city should ask and not exercise independent legal reasoning, because independent legal reasoning is only resorted to when there is a need for it.
So you ask the people of the country; you ask the owner of the house you are renting where the qiblah is. If he informs you and he is trustworthy, you act on his information.
All right, what if you prayed based on your independent legal reasoning and it turned out to be wrong?
The well-known view among the scholars of knowledge is that you repeat the prayer. They said: Because the resident is not in a place for independent legal reasoning, unlike if you were traveling and you exercised independent legal reasoning regarding the qiblah and it turned out to be wrong, then you do not repeat the prayer, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted: