I visited Osaka, Japan quite a few years back and bought some Ja-e-Namaz from the local market for my family members. It was not an ordinary Ja-e-Namaz. It had a compas and a legend on the left side which shows how to correct your direction for Ka’aba. Depending on the city (or closest one) you will change the posture and point yourself to the right direction.
Also it had a cool LCD which tells you the temperature, humidity and some other cool stuff. I gave all these as a gift items to my family members but never kept one for my self. And now I am turning towards religion a little I remembered those could have been a use ful item for my new home. As I am the only muslim person in the vicinity :).
Hammad - Lalay De Jaan, Mera Bhai per Ja e Namaz it will be around 30 pounds and the second item is not designed for different time zones or correlated with lunar scale. But thanks any way. By the way I did searched the internet prior to posting it here :)
i have seen a prayer rug that has compass in it..one of my relative got it as a gift from his sister who lives in jeddah..but what you are saying..i have never seen it unfortunately. I personally carry a qibla compass and a normal prayer rug when i travel internationally.
I did found some links..including prayer mat, compass and a digital compass..and they are not expensive..and they are all in US currency..they are not exactly what you are looking for..but i am sharing them just in case you haven’t seen them.
Thanks Q, really appreciate that :k: See the problem is none of the Ja-e-Namaz has built in compass. In other words you’ll need to carry the rug and the compass both. But thanks for the links, first one doesn’t work from my end. May be I’ll buy a compas for this time and down the road if I visited Japan again may be I’ll buy those and post a picture here along with the hadiyah for everyone.
We just pray on the floor, the carpets are always clean because my mom makes everyone take their shoes off at the doorstep before entering the house and we have slippers in 'unclean' areas such as the bathroom.
Like us Pakis the Japanese don't wear shoes inside the house either.
See the problem is none of the Ja-e-Namaz has built in compass. In other words you’ll need to carry the rug and the compass both. But thanks for the links, first one doesn’t work from my end. May be I’ll buy a compas for this time and down the road if I visited Japan again may be I’ll buy those and post a picture here along with the hadiyah for everyone.