The secretary for David's team was showing me her prayer rug in the office a few weeks ago and I asked her how she knew which direction Mecca was. (during their five prayer times a day, they are supposed to face the direction of Mecca in Saudi Arabia). She said that her sense of direction was about as bad as mine but she just asked the others in the office when she first started working there to find out. She said that virtually all hotel rooms in the Middle East will have a placard somewhere letting the occupants know which way to Mecca. Sure enough, in Alexandria, we found this on the desk:
If you click on the photo and open it in a new window, you can see that it says Mecca in English and Arabic with an arrow.
She said that her husband actually has a compass which will tell him which direction to point towards Mecca but couldn't explain how something like that would work.
2 comments:
I hope no one decides to pull a prank and rotate that table!
That's wonderfully pragmatic! Shows how seriously most Muslim take the edicts of their faith.
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