astronauts

Tim the plumber wrote: Matt Browne wrote: There can be problems with knowing which way Mecca is, for example near neutron stars or black holes. If you are that close to one of those you are probably already dead. Such a situation will not arrise for many times a longer period than the the time between Mohamed and now.

Well, close is okay, but not too close. Binary systems are cool places for Dyson slingshots saving lots of fuel.

There can be problems with knowing which way Mecca is, for example near neutron stars or black holes.

http://www.muslimworldjournal.com/2015/02/how-muslim-astronauts-pray-in-space/

"It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteous is the one who believes in Allah, and the Last Day, and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and gives away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask and to set slaves free and keeps up prayer and pays the poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in the time of conflict. These are they who are truthful; and these are they who keep their duty." Ch. 2:177