(Views differ on that being between +/- 15 degrees to +/- 90 degrees.) The 'must' part is that a Muslim has to do his/her best to try to find the direction of Qiblah before praying. There's a tolerance margin for Qiblah defined by religious scholars, which makes life easier for Muslims. Yet, this is generally +/- depending on the wind direction and impossible to know exactly beforehand. If possible, I try ask the pilot/flight engineer/whoever I can find before the flight, what they expect the maximum angle of deviation between air and ground speed would be in that flight (To be used as a correction factor for the direction of Qiblah).
I use Google Earth to draw the flight routes on the globe (then rotate the globe to look down on the route orthogonally so it looks like a straight line) and I find the angles of Qiblah at various points on the route. But if there's a long flight that includes one or more prayer intervals completely, I have to do a bit more calculation. I'd rather pray at the airport than on board. I prepare an Excel sheet showing the prayer times and Qiblah directions of the airports I'll fly through, covering the whole travel period. Here's what I do before and during the travel: When asked which direction is the Qiblah (direction towards Mecca), the FA says "The Qiblah is in our hearts" (meaning 'Stay in your seat and pray towards whichever direction we're flying!) Compare this to the treatment of BA which draws the place where you'll put your prayer rug. Personally, I've found THY to be much behind western airlines when it comes to assistance for prayers. No prayer calls or anything that reminds you of Islam while on board a THY plane (except for the little pig picture with a cross on it that comes with the tray, which doesn't put THY ahead of Lufthansa at all!) it has become easier to plan and observe worshipping while travelling.īut let me start by answering the thread question first: No. Thanks to computers, mobile phones, wi-fi, 3G, internet, etc. Hi! I may be a newbie here but I'd been flying like a qtr of a century and been praying and fasting for longer than that.
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