Masjid An-Nabawi [S]

[achaemenes]

I have a few questions regarding our second most sacred Temple, I hope you guys can enlighten me.

http://www.paklinks.com/gs/imagehosting/53862469e257d7d5e5.jpg

Can someone mark where the Prophet’s :saw: grave and the graves of his Caliphs ( Abu-Bakr :razi: and Umar :razi: ) are on the image above?

Is it true that the Prophet’s :saw: grave is under the Green-Dome? Where abouts is that on the image?

Can someone tell me the Qiblah direction on the image?

Where’s the Niche (mehrab)?

Which is the area comprising the original Masjid built in the Prophet’s :saw: time and where was its Mehrab/Niche?

Which way are Muslim graves meant to face? It it feet towards the Qiblah?

[TLK]

Re: Masjid An-Nabawi [S]

Go to the following link. It has similar picture (statellite view) with green dome identified

http://www.islam.tc/images/satellite_photos.htm

Prophet :saw: is buried under green dome and Abu-Bakr :razi: and Umar :razi: next to him

Read these articles. It explains all your questoins.

http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/may2007-weekly/iqra-18-05-2007/page4.htm

http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/may2007-weekly/iqra-25-05-2007/page3.htm

http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/jun2007-weekly/iqra-01-06-2007/page3.htm

For the last question, when you put the body in the grave, you should tilt the face towards Qibla. Its not the feet towards Qiblah. Grave is perpendicular to the direction of Qiblah, not in line with that

[TLK]

Re: Masjid An-Nabawi [S]

Also, Mecca is south of Madina, so qiblah is towards the bottom of the picture