29Nov/061
There’s a conference for everything…
Islam and life in space. From a talk The Determination Of Prayer Times and Direction of The Qiblah in Space:
A user-friendly, portable Muslims in Space calculator, could determine the direction of the Qiblah [located in Mecca] and prayer times on the ISS. Its essential feature would be the use of the Projected Earth and Qiblah Pole concepts. These are based on the interpretation of the holy house of angels above Mecca. The place is always rich with angels worshipping. As many as 70,000 angels circumbulate it every day.
More available here.
November 30th, 2006 - 04:59
“circumbulate”
I have yet to find a definition for this word, but I will use it in a sentence today.
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