How does a Muslim pray in space?
Sometime in 2007, Malaysia is to send an astronaut into space to spend 8 days on the ISS, via the Soyuz spacecraft. Out of the 4 potential candidates, 3 are Muslims. The question of prayer was one that the Malaysian Space Agency has to answer.
According to Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid of Malaysia’s space science institute, “following Earth time and facing in the direction of Earth are the key elements to solving the problem”.
Accordingly, Zainol’s got his head down with his graduate students from the National University of Malaysia to write a programme to “calculate the correct prayer times and directions for astronauts, once their positions are keyed in”.
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I do not mean any disrespect,but that just bloody made me laugh out loud..Surely God knows your sincerity and the reason of you not doing as he says..in this case, 5 times a day.
Ridicullious.
(again,no disrespect)
Hehe. No disrespect indeed. Yes it is kinda impractical and considering you are in the “heavens” already - surely you can pray in any direction you want?
this might be too obvious……the indian lady should just give up at this point eh?
ront: erm never say never!
I mean, they are going up to the heavens for god’s sakes,you would think God’ll cut them some slack!
the other one is indian lady isit?
sourrain: yeah loh!
re: Indian lady, erm dunno.