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Muslim jokers have been facing wrong direction when praying all these years!

Balls2U

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Indonesian Muslims told to change prayer direction

JAKARTA - Indonesia's Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa.

Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world's most populous Muslim country.

"But it has been decided that actually the mosques are facing Somalia or Kenya, so we are now suggesting people shift the direction slightly to the north-west," the head of the MUI, Cholil Ridwan, told Reuters. "There's no need to knock down mosques, just shift your direction slightly during prayer."

Ridwan said Muslims need not fear that their prayers have been wasted because they were facing the wrong way.

"Their prayers will still be heard by Allah," he said.

Said Agil Siradj, head of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama, told English language newspaper the Jakarta Globe that the confusion showed the MUI issued edicts too fast and that this was a lesson for them.

The MUI has, in the past, issued controversial edicts banning Muslims from chanting during yoga, and from smoking.

Indonesia is a majority Muslim but officially secular country.
 

Frankiestine

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But it has been decided that actually the mosques are facing Somalia or Kenya, so we are now suggesting people shift the direction slightly to the north-west

Hahahaha......wah piang like that also can...maybe next time they should issue those attending mosque with a compass and give them the Azimuth reading for a more accurate direction.
 

Balls2U

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One thing puzzles me. If Allah is truly god and is everywhere, why then must those blokes face Macca when praying? So does it mean that Allah is confined to that big black stone in Mecca? :confused:
 

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Jah_rastafar_I

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One thing puzzles me. If Allah is truly god and is everywhere, why then must those blokes face Macca when praying? So does it mean that Allah is confined to that big black stone in Mecca? :confused:


perhaps you should ask an islamic expert but then again better not cos it might be offensive.
 

UseYourBrain

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One thing puzzles me. If Allah is truly god and is everywhere, why then must those blokes face Macca when praying? So does it mean that Allah is confined to that big black stone in Mecca? :confused:

From the Quran

“And to Allaah belong the east and the west, so wherever you turn (yourselves or your faces) there is the Face of Allaah”
[al-Baqarah 2:115]
 

vamjok

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you want to have a taste of their islamic sucide squad appearing everywhere to show you how great is allah?
 

sinren67

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next they will say its ok to drink beer, eat pork and keep dogs :biggrin::eek:

Better not, otherwise the bak kwa will shoot up to $80/kg during CNY.

To be very honest, i've full respect to their Muslim leaders for the mistake made.
Before we laugh at them, look at our leaders, do you think MIWs will admit any mistake made?
 

Dinkley

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Installation of a giant compass should be made compulsory in all mosques so that every friday, they know where to pray to.
 
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