Which direction is kaaba from pakistan

The Compass is the easiest way to determine your directions. Technology today has made it much easier to determine the exact location of the Qibla. We can easily download apps onto our smartphones that point to the exact direction of the Qibla. Some regular mobile phones also come with built-in applications for locating the direction of the Qibla. You can also go online to determine the direction of the Qibla using various websites by entering your current location.

Twice a year, you can use the Sun to determine the precise location of the Qibla. These times are:. Hasan Saleem is a seasoned Web professional with experience in planning, launching, and operating successful Web-based ventures. There are websites that help figure out qibla direction from your place. We are constructing a new mosque building in gilgit Pakistan.

I have heard that surrounding equipment or metallic objects ma effect readings in compass. How much can we rely on compass apps or real compass to find qibla direction. Brother, it can effect a lot.

I have experience of conpass. Where the compass was showing total difference than original under electric lines. No idea about error of mobile phone compass. But if u get in a clear place and repeat the reading to get a mean reading, it will benefit house.

Great message. Thanks so much. I leave in Thailand and connot still get the qibla. My district is call nakhon pathom and I have not made any Muslim there. Hope to get more. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. One got used to the new orientation just as one got used to driving on the right-hand side of the road. Again, never did one hear of any deliberations or debate on determining the precise direction of the qibla — to the nearest decimal, that is.

But I guess those were the proverbial good old days when things were relatively simple. We used common sense to find answers to common questions. We stumbled on that branch of knowledge much later. Nor did we stop brushing our teeth for fear that the toothbrush might have animal bristles on it.

We knew bristles on toothbrushes were made of synthetic fiber, thanks to DuPont who started making nylon in But the question is, which way exactly is the east? And how do you measure degrees? Carry a compass? Khan came back with a diagram of the globe, marked with points and lines, and a page length of explanation.

I reproduce only a few lines of the explanation you will know why :. Since our earth is sphere, we better use the spherical coordinates. Khan reminds me of one of our professors who scribbled equations on the blackboard, furiously, like a man possessed, without looking back at the class, using up the chalk to the point where his fingers could not hold it any longer. While he would use up chalk after chalk on the blackboard, the class would pray for the bell to ring.

There were several other suggestions, some referring to the latitudes, longitudes and to the angle of the tilt of the globe etc. However, the most useful tip, because it was the quickest and did not involve any calculations on my part, came from someone in the US, from the West Coast I suspect from Silicon Valley. The gentleman sent me an Internet link. All I had to do was open the given web page, enter my zip code, click Enter, and I would get the precise direction in the form of a red line pointing to the qibla.

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