Prayers In The Direction Of Kaaba

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Re: Prayers In The Direction Of Kaaba

@PakistaniAbroad

[10:87]And We revealed to Musa and his brother, saying: Take for your people houses to abide in Egypt and make your houses قِبْلَةً and keep up prayer and give good news to the believers.

So now would u say Musa and his brothers and their people were all using their individual houses as “direction in which they prayed”?

Hi PA,

The Israelites were captives (slaves) in Egypt and didnt have the freedom to worship in a temple. They didnt have Jerusalem at the time either.So it would seem reasonable to me that their homes were their separate qiblahs. If you read the Old Testament, you will find Moses ordered the Israelites to put blood on the door posts of every Israelite house, to make it holy, not a central sanctuary. It is amazing that Mohammad would have known this, isnt it? Afterall you apparently didnt and you have access to the internet.

I am not sure I understand your reluctance to accept the sacred mosque as the new direction of prayer. The context of the verse suggests the Jews and Christians would question why the old one was being abandoned and this new one established. What do you think the Jews and Christians were objecting to when this new qiblah was established?

regards,

bob