An especially interesting topic for Muslims! The first question for you. When you find yourself in another country, how do you define Qiblah? No, well, really, how? For those who are not in the subject, I will explain: Qibla is the direction to the Kaaba, that is, in fact, to Mecca, which is still in Saudi Arabia. I asked Google a question, and it led me to an unpretentious site where everything is described in detail, as it were, but rather vaguely. In fact, it all boils down to the fact that there are now such smart programs in the phone that will show you this right direction from everywhere and won't even take money. Super! But what about when the electricity runs out? Clear pepper - according to the Sun. To do this, you need to imagine your position on the map and understand where is south, where is north, well, and so on. The accuracy, however, will be low. In short, if you are in central Russia, pray south. Here,everything seems to be relatively simple. But now you have given up on friends, say, in California. Or to Vladivostok. Or to central Australia. Where to pray? Obviously not south. And here the fun begins …
You take a generally accepted map of the world and see that in California you need to turn clearly to the east. In Vladivostok - to the southwest. In Australia - to the northwest. Right? Not!!!
Because today, indeed, there are technical tools that allow you to find directions for you. For example, there is the Islamic Finder website, which tells you everything about the world of Islam in English, Arabic and French. For fun, stop by, pretend you're in California and see where the dotted line shows. Take your time, I did it for you and even posted some of the pictures. According to them, it turns out that from California you need to pray 23 degrees east of the north (?), From Vladivostok - 37 degrees west of the north (?), From Australia - 71 degrees west of the north. If you are, say, in Finland, then your direction is almost vertical downward and is defined on the site as 162 degrees east of north, i.e. in other words, 18 degrees short of south. If you are confused, look at the pictures. For interest, I have added two polar Muslims in Antarctica: one is on the coast opposite South Africa, the other is closer to New Zealand. I repeat, for interest, since Antarctica is in the form of a circle encircling us, I think that modern electronic programs will malfunction, similar to those that we can easily observe in Google Earth, when we just want to rotate the globe 180 degrees along the equator, i.e. … move the leftmost point on the screen to the position of the extreme right, and the globe rotates 120 degrees from the force … You can try it yourself, a very funny "kolobok" glitch.which we can easily observe in Google Earth when we just want to rotate the globe 180 degrees along the equator, i.e. move the extreme left point on the screen to the position of the extreme right, while the globe rotates 120 degrees from the force … You can try it yourself, a very funny "kolobok" glitch.which we can easily observe in Google Earth when we just want to rotate the globe 180 degrees along the equator, i.e. move the extreme left point on the screen to the position of the extreme right, while the globe rotates 120 degrees from the force … You can try it yourself, a very funny "kolobok" glitch.
While I was doing all this, I never stopped thinking, justifying electronic navigation. Probably, I thought, from California or from Vladivostok to Mecca is just the shortest way through the north. Or not? But then what does the north have to do with it? And the result is an interesting intermediate picture, which thinking Christians and Jews can appreciate with Muslims.
If Muslims live on a ball, then all the strict prohibitions described on the above site - where to bury the dead with their faces, where to put a ram's head during a sacrifice, how to sleep, how to relieve themselves (in no case to the north and not to the south, although, apparently, this article refers exclusively to Russian Muslims, because those who live to the west and east of Mecca should, in theory, do exactly the opposite) - so, these prohibitions do not make any sense. First, because, in general, American Muslims should pray strictly to the floor (Mecca is “under” them). Secondly, if you turn your inner eye to Mecca directly - through the floor - it is not so important, then you can pray to Antarctica from the same California: after all, if you draw an imaginary line in a circle across the south, then sooner or later it will run into Mecca. An Australian can do the samewho directed his eyes towards Easter Island, for example: so what if Africa is somewhere in the back, it is still ahead. Is not it? As for the Christians and Jews hiding in anticipation, well, friends, here you know better than me that your beloved or hated messiah promised not just to return, but to appear to all the peoples of the Earth. And right away. Did you understand? Immediately! That is, again, if you live on a globe, about which there is not a single word in the Bible or in the Torah, then it is assumed that either the hologram will be all over the globe at the same time, or according to the new theory of some Kronstein, our vision is time will have such a quantum relativity to gravity that it will be able to bend around all the invisible slopes of the horizon … It is wise, however, on the ball, to consider yourself a believer and believe in the ball, don't you?that Africa is somewhere in the back, it is still ahead. Is not it? As for the Christians and Jews hiding in anticipation, well, friends, here you know better than me that your beloved or hated messiah promised not just to return, but to appear to all the peoples of the Earth. And right away. Did you understand? Immediately! That is, again, if you live on a globe, about which there is not a single word in the Bible or in the Torah, then it is assumed that either the hologram will be all over the globe at the same time, or, according to the new theory of some Kronstein, our vision is time will have such a quantum relativity to gravity that it will be able to go around all the invisible slopes of the horizon … It is wise, however, on the ball, to consider yourself a believer and believe in the ball, don't you think?that Africa is somewhere in the back, it is still ahead. Is not it? As for the Christians and Jews hiding in anticipation, well, friends, here you know better than me that your beloved or hated messiah promised not just to return, but to appear to all the peoples of the Earth. And right away. Did you understand? Immediately! That is, again, if you live on a globe, about which there is not a single word in the Bible or in the Torah, then it is assumed that either the hologram will be all over the globe at the same time, or according to the new theory of some Kronstein, our vision is time will have such a quantum relativity to gravity that it will be able to go around all the invisible slopes of the horizon … It is wise, however, on the ball, to consider yourself a believer and believe in the ball, don't you think?here you know better than me that your beloved or hated messiah promised not only to return, but to appear to all the peoples of the Earth. And right away. Did you understand? Immediately! That is, again, if you live on a globe, about which there is not a single word in the Bible or in the Torah, then it is assumed that either the hologram will be all over the globe at the same time, or, according to the new theory of some Kronstein, our vision is time will have such a quantum relativity to gravity that it will be able to go around all the invisible slopes of the horizon … It is wise, however, on the ball, to consider yourself a believer and believe in the ball, don't you think?here you know better than me that your beloved or hated messiah promised not only to return, but to appear to all the peoples of the Earth. And right away. Did you understand? Immediately! That is, again, if you live on a globe, about which there is not a single word in the Bible or in the Torah, then it is assumed that either the hologram will be all over the globe at the same time, or, according to the new theory of some Kronstein, our vision is time will have such a quantum relativity to gravity that it will be able to go around all the invisible slopes of the horizon … It is wise, however, on the ball, to consider yourself a believer and believe in the ball, don't you think?then it is assumed that either the hologram will be all over the ball at the same time, or according to the new theory of some Kronstein, our vision by that time will have such a quantum relativity to gravity that it will be able to bend around all the invisible slopes of the horizon … It is wise, however, on the ball, consider yourself a believer and believe in the ball, don't you think?then it is assumed that either the hologram will be all over the ball at the same time, or according to the new theory of some Kronstein, our vision by that time will have such a quantum relativity to gravity that it will be able to bend around all the invisible slopes of the horizon … It is wise, however, on the ball, consider yourself a believer and believe in the ball, don't you think?
In short. I took Comrade Gleason's map of the flat Earth, which has already become common (for lack of a better one), and connected all my Finnish, Californian, Vladivostok, Australian and Antarctic Muslims with one single point - Mecca, on which the ruler that got to the picture ends forever. You can see the result yourself. Indeed, the straight line from California to Mecca goes straight up and passes through the center of our circle, i.e. across the north. The Vladivostok line does not go down as expected, but past the north. Australian - not sideways, but up. Finnish - clearly “down”. In any case, directions acquire logic on the plane. On the plane, a Muslim knows exactly where is north and where is south. On the plane for the appearance of the Messiah, one powerful hologram is required, and not a bunch of small ones, for which even NASA may not have enough budget …
Here's a story with geography …
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I turned the original map over so that you and I were accustomed to navigate.