Compatibility iPhone Requires iOS 9. Price Free. Family Sharing With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app. More By This Developer. Prayer Times: Athan. You Might Also Like. Qibla Compass. Use the sun. For millennia, navigators have relied on the sun to know their direction. Simply knowing where the sun rises and sets can get you in the general direction of Mecca.
Method 2. Make a sundial. Find level ground, and before noon, place a stick or other vertical object that's about 3 feet 1m high. Measure the length of the shadow, and draw a circle around the stick using the shadow length as the radius. As the day progresses, the shadow will shorten and move away from the circle. It will eventually start to lengthen as the day wears on, and then touch the circle again. At that point, make another mark, and draw a line between the two marks you made.
The line is west to east, with the first point being west, the second being east. Draw a line perpendicular to the west-east line, and this is your north-south line. Method 3. Use a watch. Using any analog watch with an hour and minute hand will allow you to find directions.
In the northern hemisphere. Hold the watch horizontally, and point the hour hand towards the sun. The direction that lies midway between the hour hand and 12 o'clock on your watch is south. From there, you can easily determine the other directions. In the southern hemisphere. Hold the watch horizontally, and point the twelve o'clock mark at the sun. The direction that lies halfway between 12 o'clock and the hour hand will be north.
Method 4. Use a compass. This tried and true method will not tell you where the Qiblah is located, but if you know where you are in relation to Makkah, it's far more accurate than a stick in the ground. More detailed instructions on how to find the Qibla using a compass can be found here, or follow this: [4] X Research source Get yourself a Qibla compass.
Find out the direction to Mecca from you location. Hold out your compass flat, wait for the dial to settle.
Turn towards the direction to Makkah for your location. Method 5. Use advanced technology. There are over a dozen different iPhone or iPad free apps look like Athan Pro or Qibla that will use the built-in GPS and compass to point in exactly the correct direction no matter where in the world you are. The internet has sites that will calculate the direction that is shortest distance to al Qiblah.
While this is always an important thing for Muslims to be aware of, it is especially so now as Ramadan , the Muslim month of fasting is about to begin. The sighting of the new moon will make it official but it should be sometime around Sunday the 5th. To all our Muslim brothers and sisters, Ramadan Kareem!
Amazing illustration!! I find projection completely fascinating. The straight line from NY to Madrid is only straight on that particular presumably equator-centric projection of course, and is the point of your blog post; tip a globe back towards you, and look down with one eye closed and the arc becomes the straight-line end-on circumference of that great circle.
More interesting to me is the great circle mapper at the bottom, where the route CHC-OEJN is a swoosh curvier at one end and straighter at the other. And that Timeanddate map shows that really clearly. A globe makes a perfect gift for the thoughtful GISer. Thanks for explaining this. The best way to find the qibla direction without a compass is to use an online qibla direction locator.
Especially using a google maps based prayer finder. You should face Kaabah. Our Qibla finder tool makes the process easier to find prayer directions wherever you are. If you need help to use our tool, we suggest you watch our video guide above.
Yes, this tool will solve your need to find Qibla. As such when written in English there are number of variations used to spell the word. The main variation is the use of either "Q" or "K" in the beginning of the word. The second is the addition of letters "t" or "h" at the end. This has given rise to the following variations of spelling:. Sometimes the prefix "Al" is added to the word which make it "Al Qibla".
The exact direction depends on the location in UAE. For Dubai, it is about degrees from geographic north, for Abu Dhabi the direction is around degrees and for Sharjah it is around degrees. The Qibla direction in Singapore is generally North-West and it is about degrees from geographic north. The Qibla direction in India is generally West.
The exact direction depends on the location in India. For Chandigarh, a city in the north of India, the direction is about degrees from geographic north. For Madurai, located in the south, the direction is around degrees. Here are directions for some of the main cities in India. For New York, it is about 58 degrees from geographic north, for Los Angeles the direction is also 24 degrees and for Chicago it is around 49 degrees.
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