Timeline for How would Muslims adapt to follow their prayer rituals in the loss of Earth?
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| Jan 15, 2021 at 17:44 | comment | added | Ahmed Tawfik | @Quuxplusone As mentioned by others in other comments, in Islam the obligation of Pilgrimage (Hajj) is lifted (i.e. no longer applicable) if one does not have the means to complete it. | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 10:57 | comment | added | Soner from The Ottoman Empire | Fabulous answer! As a Muslim, thank you really that point of view. +1 | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 16:58 | comment | added | Quuxplusone | I like this answer except for the reference to the Hajj. If it weren't for the Hajj, then sure, the "rescued Kaaba at the center of the galaxy" would be a useful fiction on par with "the ice wall around the edge of the Flat Earth" (which anyone with adequate resources can go see, and anyway nobody's ever said they went to the edge and saw no ice wall). But I don't think one can simultaneously believe in the Kaaba at the center of the galaxy and that every Muslim has a duty to go visit it! At least not without a lot of guilt about one's own failure to do so. Hm. Story possibilities here. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 15:18 | comment | added | Willk | @EveryBitHelps - I would have liked to come back with your comeuppance but you are right. It would not be easy to find the Milky Way at a great distance. I thought Sagittarius A at the center of our galaxy was a big deal and it is the biggest deal around but it is actually dim compared to its compadres. everythingology.com/sagittarius-a Maybe the Kaaba can orbit Cygnus A or something easier to find. But less hospitable to visit. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 0:37 | comment | added | EveryBitHelps | The centre of a single galaxy is most assuredly not easily locatable throughout the known universe? Unless you meant to imply that the religious connotation 'changed' it the centre of the universe? But that would theoretical/religious faith based logic, which for the record I don't dismiss, BUT (and I hate this word), How would that then be 'easily' measured/locatable by scientific gravitational-type/radio-type sensors? | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 18:13 | comment | added | Willk | If someone asks how a downed tree affects user2352714's commute, and the answer is that user2352714 goes one block further so as to not take the blocked street, have I dodged the question? A sensible answer is that you change your commute as little as possible to account for the new circumstances. Answer does not need to be that user2352714 takes motocross bike roaring across all lawns and yards on the way for new commute (though I would upvote that answer). All that said, relocating a holy monument is not exactly a little alteration! | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 17:38 | comment | added | user2352714 | Isn't this just dodging the question? OP asked how the destruction of Earth would affect Muslim religious practices, not for ways that Muslim religious pratices could be carried on with as little alteratiom as possible if Earth is destroyed. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 16:48 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |