Dought - clear - A mistake in the direction of the qiblah .

One of my neighbours told me that the qiblah towards which I was
praying was wrong and was not in accordance with the qiblah of the
neighbouring mosque. Based on this, I changed the direction for a few
months, including last Ramadaan. Then I found out that the first
qiblah had been correct. What is the ruling on prayers that I did
facing the incorrect qiblah? I hope you can answer me because I am
confused. Thank you very much.
Praise be to Allaah.
Facing the qiblah is one of the conditions of prayer being valid.
Everyworshipper has to make sure he faces the qiblah in his prayer,
and strive to make sure he is facingin the right direction, whether by
means of natural signs or using a compass, if he is able to do that,
or by asking trustworthy people in that place who know in which
direction the qiblah is.
It seems most likely in the case that you describe that the deviation
from the qiblah was very slight. This slight deviation is something
that can happen when a person who lives in that area is a little
confused and people do not pay attention to this slight difference in
direction. Ifthat is the case, i.e., if the deviation from the qiblah
was slight, then itdoes not matter and it does not invalidate the
prayer, because those who are far away from the Ka'bah have to face in
its general direction; they do not have to face precisely in that
direction, because al-Tirmidhi (342) and IbnMaajah (1011) narrated
that Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The
Messengerof Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
"Whatever is between the east and the west is the qiblah." Classed as
saheeh by al-Albaani in al-Irwa'.
Al-San'aani (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in Subul al-Salaam
(1/260). This hadeeth indicates that what is required is to face in
that direction, and not towards the precise location of the Ka'bah
when one cannot see it.
Further evidence to this effect is to be seen in thereport narrated by
al-Bukhaari (144) and Muslim (264) from Abu Ayyoob (may Allaah be
pleased with him) who said that the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) said: "If you need to relieve yourself, then do
not face the qiblah or turn your back towards it, whether you are
urinating or defecating, rather face to the east orto the west."
Shaykh al-Islam (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in Sharh
al-'Umdah: This is statingthat facing any directionother than the east
or the west means that oneis either facing the qiblah or turning one's
back towards it. This wasaddressed to the people of Madeenah and
everyone who was in the same direction (in relation to Makkah),
because this was the consensus of the Sahaabah (may Allaah bepleased
with them). 'Umar said: Whatever is between the east and the west is
the qiblah except at the House. Andit was narrated that 'Uthmaan (may
Allaah bepleased with him) said: How can a man make a mistake in his
prayer when whatever is between the east and the west is the qiblah,
solong he does not turn towards the east deliberately.
Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: Thus we
know that the matter is broad in scope. So if we see a person praying
in a direction that is slightly off from the qiblah, that does not
matter, because he is facing in its general direction, and this is
what he is obliged to do.
Al-Sharh al-Mumti', 2/273
But if the deviation fromthe direction of the qiblah was very great,
sothat you were not praying in the direction of the qiblah at all,
such as if you were praying towards the east when the qiblah is
towards thewest or the north, for example, so long as you based your
action on thewords of someone who you know attaches greatimportance to
the prayer and you thought that they knew better about the direction
of the qiblah, then you do not have to do anything,and the prayers
which you offered are still valid, even if you faced the wrong
direction when you prayed, because if a person tries his best to get
it right, he has done what is required of him, as Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
"So keep your duty to Allaah and fear Him as much as you can"
[al-Taghaabun 64:16]
It says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah (6/314): If a worshipper does
his best to figure out the direction of the qiblah and prays, then he
finds out that he was mistaken, his prayer is still valid.
In Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) (10/421)
it says: If a believer does his best to figure out the direction of
the qiblah, when he isin the desert or is in a city in which he is not
sure where the qiblah is,and he prays on that basis, then he finds out
that he prayed in a direction other than the qiblah, then he should
continue to pray according to his latest estimate, if he believes that
it is more correct than his first estimate. His first prayer is still
valid because he did his best to work out the qiblah.

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Quran: Clear Truth - THE PROPORTION OF RAIN

One of the items of information given in the Quran about rain is that
it is sent down to Earth in due measure. This is mentioned in Surah
Zukhruf as follows;
"It is He who sends down water in due measure from the sky by which We
bring a dead land back to life. That is how you too will be raised
(from the dead)." (The Quran, 43:11)
This measured quantity in rain has again been discovered by modern
research. It is estimated that in one second, approximately 16 million
tons of water evaporates from the Earth. This figure amounts to 513
trillion tons of water in one year. This number is equal to the amount
of rain that falls on the Earth in a year. This means that water
continuously circulates in abalanced cycle, in a "measure". Life on
Earth depends on this water cycle. Even if people used all the
available technology in theworld, they would not be able to reproduce
this cycle artificially.
Even a minor deviation in this equilibrium would very soon give rise
to a major ecological imbalance that would bring about the end of life
on Earth. Yet, this never happens, and rain keeps falling every year
in exactly the same quantity just as revealed in the Quran.
Every year, the amount of water that evaporates and that falls back to
the Earth in the form of rain is "constant": 513 trillion tons. This
constant amount is declared in the Quran by the expression "sending
down water in due measure from the sky". The constancy of this
quantity is very important for the continuity of the ecological
balance, and therefore, life.

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Quran: Clear Truth - QURAN ON SEA WAVES

With regard to the many statements in the Quran concerning the sea,
some of these facts were not discovered until very recently, and many
of them are still unknown. For example, these facts were discovered
after hundreds of marine stations had been set up, and after images
had been taken by satellites. The one who said this was Professor
Schroeder, oneof the greatest oceanographers in West Germany. He used
to say that if science advanced, religion would have to retreat. But
when he heard the translation of the verses of the Quran, he was
stunned and said, "These could not be the words of a human being." And
Professor Dorjaro, a professor of oceanography, told us of the latest
developments on science, when he heard the verse:
"Or (the state of a disbeliever) is like the darkness in a vast deep
sea, overwhelmed with waves topped by waves, topped by dark clouds,
(layers of) darkness upon darkness: if a man stretches out his hand,
he can hardly see it! And he for whom Allah has not appointed light,
for him there is no light"(The Quran, 24:40 interpretation of the
meaning)
He said, "In the past, man could not dive to a depth of more than
twenty meters because he had no special equipment. But now we can dive
to the bottom of the ocean, using modern equipment, and we find
intense darkness at adepth of two hundred meters." The verse says a
vast deep sea. The discoveries in the depths of the sea give us an
understanding of the verse, (layers of) darkness upon darkness. It is
known that there are seven colours in the spectrum, including red,
yellow, blue, green, orange, etc. When we dive down into the depths of
the ocean, these colours disappear one after another, and the
disappearance of each colour results in more darkness. Red disappears
first, then orange, then yellow the last colour to disappear is blue,
at a depth of two hundred meters. Each colourthat disappears adds to
the darkness until it reaches total darkness. With regard to the
phrase waves topped by waves, ithas been proven scientifically that
there is a separation between the upper and lower parts of the ocean,
and that this separation is filled with waves, asif there are waves on
the edge of the dark, lower portion of the sea, which we do not see,
and there are waves on the shores of the sea, which we do see. So it
is as if there are waves above waves. This is a confirmed scientific
fact, hence Professor Dorjaro said concerning these Quranic verses,
that this cannot be human knowledge.
Taken from Islam-qa.comand al-Adillah al-Maadiyyah ala Wujood-Allaah
by Muhammad Mitwalli al-Sharaawi.

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Darwinism is the main source of racism

A huge wave of propaganda has recentlybeen initiated in variousTurkish
and international Darwinist publications. Some of the headlines that
have appeared in these publications are: "Hatredof slavery drove
Darwin ideas, book says" and"Darwin: shaped by slavery", "Darwin's
Anti-Slavery Views May Have Guided His Theory of Evolution."
These suggestions, which might at first sight appear capable of
misleading someone unaware of the true faceof Darwinism, its sinister
logic and the scourges and oppression it has inflicted on the world,
are in fact a brand new initiative from Darwinists, who have foryears
been misleading humanity with the worstmass deception in history.
Seeing that Darwinism religion has been brought to the ground,
Darwinists have sought a solution in portraying Darwinism asan
innocent ideology opposed to racism.
BUT THIS IS A HUGE FRAUD AND A TERRIBLE LIE.
The truth of the matter isthis:
Exactly contrary to this propaganda, Darwin's false claim of common
origins FORMED THE MAIN BASIS FOR RACISM , and became THE SOURCE OF
INSPIRATION FOR FASCISTS, who used racism as a supposed justification
for massacres. Darwinism maintained that human beings were evolved
from primitive life forms,and even claimed that some races had
progressed further than others in the course of that fictitious
evolution, thus providing a scientific mask for racism. To put it
another way, Darwin wanted society to regard human beings as a species
of animal and to believe in the existence of supposed "superior races"
and "inferior races" within that species on the basis of false science
and a false philosophy. What the Nazis and all other fascists did was
simply toput Darwin's theory into practice.
THEREFORE DARWIN ;
IS THE WORST FASCIST THERE HAS EVER BEEN,
AND THE WORST RACIST HISTORY HAS EVER WITNESSED.
HE SPREAD SOCIAL FASCISM AND COMMUNISM ACROSS THE WHOLE WORLD.
HE LED THE WAY FOR THE NAZIS THROUGH RACIST FASCISM . HE EDUCATED THEM
THEORETICALLY AND BECAME THEIR LEADER.
This is not an accusation or insult, it is a PHILOSOPHYCAL, TECHNICAL FACT.
And in particular, Darwin ,
WAS AN ENEMY OF THE TURKS AND REGARDED THEM AS AN INFERIOR RACE. (OUR
ILLUSTRIOUS TURKISH NATION IS SURELY BEYONDTHIS.) HE IS THE WORST
RACIST WHO IMPLANTED ENMITY TOWARD THE TURKS ACROSS THE WORLD.
Darwin never hesitated in openly stating how he regardedthe Turks as
an inferior race. In a letter dated 3 July, 1881, addressed to the
scientist W. Graham, he said the following about the Turks:
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for
the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember
what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of
being overwhelmed by the TURKS, and how RIDICILOUS such an idea now
is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the
TURKISH hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking tothe world at
no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will
have been eliminated by the higher civilised races throughout the
world. [i]
There is no other way of interpreting Darwin's words. Since the racist
Darwin openly regarded the Turkish nation as an INFERIOR NATION, he
believed that the TURKISH RACE would shortly be eliminated , WIPED OUT
IN OTHER WORDS , by supposed " SUPERIOR RACES ," meaning the peoples
of Europe.
This opinion of Darwin's about the Turkswas openly put into practice
regarding othersocieties. DARWINISM IS THE SOLE CAUSE of the racist
massacres, oppression and slaughters that took place in the Second
World War and after. Because according to the ideology of Darwinism,
human beings were just a species of animal, for which reason there was
an inevitable struggle for survival among the races. Leading fascists
holding that belief by drawing strength only from Darwinism
perpetrated their ruthless killings and murders, destroyed whole
peoples, made no allowances for women and children, and causedthe
deaths of hundreds of millions.
Peter Chrisp, author of the book The Rise of Fascism , makes this
quite clear in the words"The Nazis distorted Darwin's theories… using
them to justify warfare and racism." [ii] The historian R. Hickmanalso
describes how Hitlerwas influenced by Darwinism:
[Hitler] was a firm believer and preacher ofevolution. Whatever the
deeper, profound, complexities of his psychosis, it is certain that
his book, Mein Kampf , clearly set forth anumber of evolutionary
ideas, particularly those emphasizing struggle, survival of the
fittest andthe extermination of theweak to produce a better society.
[iii]
The conclusion from these facts about fascist racism is clear;
Darwinism is what is"truly" responsible for both all fascist regimes
and the two world wars.Fascists draw their basic beliefs from
Darwinism. Principles such as chaos, ruthlessness, oppression and
strong being right are all inherent in this perverted system that
regards chance as a creative force. The principle of continual
struggle in Darwinism lays the philosophical groundwork for endless
savagery, oppression and slaughter. Therefore IT IS DARWIN WHO
INFLICTED THE PHILOSOPHY OF FASCISM ON THE WORLD.
It is Darwin who is principally responsible for a century of mass
slaughter by spreading the idea that human beings are descended from
primitive animals and that undeveloped animals need to be destroyed.
It is also Darwin who inflicted racism and fascism on the world and
savagery, devastation and oppression on the people in it. And it is
Darwin who regarded the Turkish nation as an inferior race, who had no
compunctions about openly stating that, and who, since he believed the
Turks were an"inferior race," was determined they should be
eliminated, thus making him the worst fascist in history.
That is the view that publications suggesting that Darwin was"opposed
to racism" should be taking into account of the worst racist and
fascist of all time, a man who claimed the Turkish nation was an
inferior race and wished to see iteliminated. Darwinism isthe sole and
fundamental reason whythe world suffered years of tyranny under the
bloody rule of racism and fascism. The mass deceptions Darwinists have
perpetrated over the last 150 years or so have now come to an end in
absolute defeat. By trying to deceive people into thinking that the
worst fascist in history was actually"opposed to racism," Darwinists
merely make themselves look ridiculous. People no longer believe in
the liesof Darwinism and Darwinists.

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