{"id":1282,"date":"2019-06-21T10:21:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T08:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2019-06-21T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T08:21:23","slug":"can-one-perform-salaah-in-any-direction-without-actually-determining-the-actual-qiblah-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Can one perform Salaah in any direction without actually determining the actual Qiblah direction?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Can one perform Salaah in any direction without actually determining the actual Qiblah direction?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Slmz. We were about to perform salaah in a strange place. We noticed some people reading in a certain direction and assumed that they were facing qiblah so we faced the same way is it fine?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> In the enquired case, it was necessary for you to try your level best to determine the Qiblah direction before performing Salaah. It was incorrect for you to follow a group of people assuming that they were performing Salaah in the right Qiblah direction.<\/p>\n<p>If you had tried your level best to determine the Qiblah direction before performing Salaah and you later discovered that the Qiblah direction was incorrect, your Salaah will be <strong>valid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, if you did not try your level best in determining the Qiblah direction before performing Salaah and later discovered that the Qiblah direction was incorrect, your Salaah will be <strong>invalid <\/strong>and will have to be repeated.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, if the Qiblah direction turned out to be correct, your Salaah will be valid and will not have to be repeated. \u00a0<strong>(Shaami 1\/433)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can one perform Salaah in any direction without actually determining the actual Qiblah direction?\u00a0 Q. Slmz. We were about to perform salaah in a strange place.<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}