Islam - Qiblah direction from North America: North East or South East? / Alquibla desde Norteamérica

Islam - Qiblah direction from North America: North East or South East? / Alquibla desde Norteamérica

  

Dirección de la Quibla (alquibla) desde Norteamérica. --------------------------------------- How to find out the Qibla direction from North America. Is it the right direction North East or South East? With the help of Google Earth you will be able to find out very easily the right Qibla directionfrom wherever city you live, without relaying on difficult concepts about the Great Circle, the rhumb line, trigonometry or falling on endless arguments about if we follow the Great Circle route or the mercator projection map indicating South East direction. Qibla direction, since we are talking about prayers direction, and not a direction or route on the surface of Earth, like street directions, etc. it must be an straight line between the person who is offering the prayer and Kabah, regardless of distance. There must not be short cuts or turning points. So an straight and direct line between where you are and Kabah it will give you the right direction. And the best way to do it is looking to the Earth as it is, like a sphere and not like a flat map. If you follow the direction the map give you "alone" (in this case from USA will be South East) eventually, at some point, you will have to correct the direction again in order to reach Mecca, so it won't be an straight direction. Some people claim that in USA there are mosques and cemeteries that were build many years ago, when the first muslims arrived to that land and they are built facing the South East direction. Alhamdullillah, science and people knowledge increase every day by the willing of Allah (Subhanna wa'taala). So, if science and mathematics give us today a better understanding of how calculate and determine Qibla direction, are we going to denied it or use it in a way to help us in the religion? Those brothers and sisters who built the mosques and cemeteries long time ago, they did it in their best of their knowledge on that time, and may Allah reward them, inshaAllah. Note: This video was made just as visual aid to help you determine Qibla direction in an easy way for everybody. Allah (Subhanna wa'taala) put a lot of signs on this world for us to find out Qibla direction, like the sun, the stars, the mountains, etc. So you might use those signs also to determine the Qibla direction. Just choose the correct and easiest method for you, and Allah knows the best. Articles and websites that might help you are: http://www.quran.org/disoriented.htm http://patriot.net/~abdali/ftp/qibla.pdf http://www.hilal-sighting.com/Qiblah-FaceTowards.html http://www.moonsighting.com/faq_qd.html http://www.moonsighting.com/qibla.html http://islamworld.net/docs/qibla.html http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1157962462906&pagename=Zone-English-HealthScience%2FHSELayout