The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The ruling on turning to the Kaaba in prayer ]

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Muslims have agreed that facing the Qiblah, I mean the Kaaba, is one of the conditions for the validity of prayer. If the consensus had not preceded me on this issue, I would not have said that it is a condition. The Almighty’s saying, “Wherever they turn, there is the face of God,” was revealed after it, and it is a clear verse that has not been abrogated, but the consensus was established on this. And according to the Almighty’s saying, “Wherever you turn, then God will face judgment on the perplexed person who is ignorant of the qiblah, and he will pray wherever his opinion most likely due to his diligence, without disagreement, and if it appears to him after that that he prayed facing other than the qiblah, he no longer disagrees about that, unlike the one who did not find a way to purity, for there has been disagreement about whether he should pray.” Or not? Then there is no disagreement. If a person inspects the house, it is obligatory for him to face his eye, but if he does


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