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The Most Accurate Method to determine the Qibla direction |
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It is not advisable to determine the Qibla specially for a Masjid using an ordinary compass. The following method which uses the Sun is more reliable and accurate. It has been observed for centuries and reported in many books by Muslims around the world that two times a year the Sun comes overhead above the Ka'bah. This is an observational fact, and has been used by Muslims for the last so many centuries to set up the correct Qibla direction in places far from Makkah.
Those two dates and times are:
May 28 at 10:18pm BST
July 16 at 10:27pm BST
When you observe the sun at these times (after converting it to your local time), you will be facing the Ka'bah giving you the Qibla direction, because if there were a very high minaret over the Ka'bah reaching up to the sky, then you will see it just like you are seeing the Sun. For the protection of your eyes, please do not look directly at the Sun, just face the direction towards the Sun. |
