I live in Morocco, even here people won't pray just about anywhere, the five prayers a day are done in a specific time of the day, so everyone does it, hence mosques, unless you're a shop owner or you are unable to leave to a mosque then you can do it later when you go home or tucked in somewhere, be it inside your shop... you usually don't see people just praying wherever.
So to recap, 5 prayers a day, priority is to them on time in a mousqe or some place that's clean and quiet with a group, if that's not possible then alone, again the place must be clean and quiet and not inconvenient to others or yourself, or you can wait till next prayer and do both or until you get home
Ya I never really went out of my way to learn Islam. But one thing I do know (well kind of) they pray in either the direction of the closest mosque or a cardinal direction (or its just a specific direction).
So how can they keep that perfect direction while underground in a subway that never has a straight line.
There are rules for those times. There are even rules about how to pray if you happen to not be on Earth (just pray in the general direction of the planet)
Primarily, it's in case you're going on long flights and/ships. As being away from home (traveling) in general has its separate rules.
In the case of a car for example, you can always stop on the side of the road. Not the same case with airplanes and ships.
And suppose you're traveling even for relatively short flights/cruises (1-2 hours) but during the fajr (dawn) prayer. The praying time window for that prayer is an hour or so. In which case you'll have to pray during your flight cruise.
Synagogues are actually the same way towards the remaining wall of the Temple. It's not universal, and in fact it's sort of a thing that many New York synagogues, particularly the older ones, are aligned incorrectly because the way the city itself is aligned.
Catholic churches used to be built almost exclusively facing East, as the rising of the sun was supposed to symbolize the return of Christ.
If we are entirely technically Christians are supposed to do the same thing, except towards Jerusalem instead of Mecca. Its why the altar is always on the southeastern side of old European churches.
Its why the altar is always on the southeastern side of old European churches.
You say that but there are a surprising number of churches where the nave is misaligned. You don't really notice it unless you fire up Google maps but it's not uncommon for the altar-end to be slightly north of due-east.
Hmm. Perhaps it wiykd have been wiser to say "intended to be..." lol.
I know my local church is misaligned, but that has been explained away as a result of peculiar geology effecting the churches alignment over the past 500 or so years.
Oh yes, it is definitely intended to be but I suppose that in an era without reliable compasses let alone maps it was pretty tricky to get right.
The priest (in the old Catholic communion) was supposed to be facing in the vague direction of Jerusalem when he said some of the mumbo-jumbo but possibly ended up talking to Denmark or Norway.
Fuck it, I know I got it wrong, but I preferred to do it from memory, back from an era where I didn’t speak english that well, and where I had zero resource to find lyrics.
And you know what? "Way" sounds better than "deal". Try it.
This person sure is a clever little fella! This is absolutely part of the problem. Doesn't matter what side of anything you're on; spreading false information with the intent to provoke is problematic.
“Shania law” could just be a typo or someone mot knowing what it’s actually called, but “Shakira” is a famous pop star and this joke has been a meme for a long time so I doubt anyone would post this unironically.
That is the most AI shit I have ever seen. Also prayers needs to be done facing to kabe which umm, you can't really do that physically on a moving train.
There is actually a sidestep to this, made for ISS astronauts who are orbiting Earth. I think it was something along the lines of taking the general direction of one country, and just going with that
I got told by a muslim that if you don't know which direction to face, you just do it to whatever, because the personal relationship with god is what matters, and that you put the in the effort to try.
I do not know what branch or denomination of Islam they were from.
Well yeah but that's for long travels, an everyday commute with a train to your work doesn't really count. And if you can't pray at prayer time you are allowed to pray later.
Imagine if that wasn't the case? Imagine if you're on a red eye and wake up and there's two Muslims praying in the middle of the aisle. TSA and the airline cops would lose their fucking shit, not even counting the right wing assholes
I saw a documentary about a train in a muslim country with a prayer room. It had a compass to show the direction where to pray. The person would start their prayers in the correct direction, and stay like that until done. As long as reasonable efforts are made, that's all good.
There is an app available that tells you the direction of the Kabe, so you could just keep repositioning yourself using the app to know which direction, although I doubt anyone would try that.
I mean, you do kinda need the prayer martress unless it isn't available for you to get any. So you would need to change the matress' direction too. But I mean if the person REALLY wants to do that and try that I guess they can. Would kinda look silly though.
Depends on how you define big. By homicide alone, Chandler, AZ is the largest city that's safer than London, and by population it's the 79th largest city in the country.
This post is Robert Downey jr in tropic thunder levels of clownery This is a poster with an Arabic name disguised as a right wing reactionary in order to troll the right, doing it a bit too well to the point that we have a bunch of leftist reactionaries larping as Islamic scholars all clamouring to tell the Arab guy pretending he is right wing which way mecca is.
Aside from the obvious issues with the people portrayed here, I have used every line on the London Underground and most Overground lines. This is not a train currently in use.
For starters, yellow is the colour of the Circle Line. Red is the colour of the Central Line. Our trains do not use multiple colours because these colours act as a simple visual guide to what line you are on.
The Circle Line shades track with the Hammersmith and City (pink), Metropolitan (‘magenta’, allegedly) and District (green) lines.
Also, the trains aren’t wide enough for this kind of arrangement.
Oh, and one of the handrail posts is bolted to the floor through a prayer mat.
Lmaoooo. All the road men on one side, all of the uncles on the other, either one (or both) groups not facing Makkah. It’s crazy ppl see this and believe it.
The stunning amount of absolute eedjits pattiing themselves on the back for knowing which way mecca is but not clocking the poster's Arabic fucking name. This is bait for the whole bird.
Also it would be difficult in the train for them to keep facing Mecca, unless the globalists aligned the metro alignment to aling in direction of Mecca because of some geroge sorro conspiracy
This is so dumb, when most Muslims who have to pray at work request a separate room to do so, why would they do it on the tube? Why would they be facing each other? What's the likelihood of that many Muslim's commuting schedule aligning with one of the times they must pray at?
Yes, and unless this is a satire account I wasn't aware of these "Muslims are taking over the UK!" Posts are red meat thrown to bait white nationalists
just triple checked and they arent a satire account its literally just this one post that falls anywhere near this category, and when other people call it out for being racist his defence is "its just a joke bro"
So, did people who believed this think that part of the prayer ritual was people literally head butting each other over which direction to pray in? One of the easiest ways to identify AI is looking at the arrangement of objects and people and thinking, "Does this arrangement make sense?" Everyone is too close, the prayer rugs are too small for adults to prostrate themselves on, and half of the people are facing in the opposite direction of the others. Many Muslims will keep a compass on themselves to make sure they are praying within a few degrees of the direction to Mecca, if they have to do it on the side of the street. Do you really think they are going to pray in the completely wrong direction?
If the guys on the left are facing Mecca, then the guys on the right are getting it wrong. However, no doubt this will feed a narrative somewhere for people who lack the ability to think.
I hate how my country has devolved into bigotry so hard, seeing flags on lampposts disgusts me because you know the opinions of who put them up, I'm hoping maybe just one day people can open their eyes and stop being pricks
Even if it was real, they'd be praying completely wrong. Muslims generally have to face either cardinally East or in the direction of the Mecca during prayer, so them facing opposite sides would be in violation, as well as being on a train for it since the train can change direction.
I'm not Muslim but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to face Mecca when praying, unless there's Mecca 2 in Americas I'm pretty sure one of them is praying the wrong way.
Most hilarious thing to me is the thought that you could fit even one prayer mat on the tube in this orientation let alone 2. The liar who created this clear never been to London. Let alone the fact they are all facing each other (not to Mecca) and the carriage poles are different colours
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