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qibla
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kiblah, keblah, qibla
In Islam, the required orientation of the prayer niche, toward Mecca.


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Settlers have issued an ongoing threat to storm the first Qiblah and the third holiest site in Islam, while the military did just that twice on Sunday.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the Muslims' first Qiblah [direction Muslims take during prayers] and the third holiest shrine after Al Ka'bah in Makkah and Prophet Muhammad's Mosque in Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
The two new sets have a variety of Ramadan-geared features, including a Qiblah indicator that uses an in-built longitude and latitude orientation or city references that, when used in comparison to the magnetic north, indicates the direction of Qiblah.
 
 
 
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