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    Question ID: 40273Country: India

    Title: How to perform salah in train when it is in motion

    Question: How to perform salah in train when it is in motion? Trains constantly change direction and the qiblah condition is disturbed during salah. Kindly give a detailed answer.

    Answer ID: 40273

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 649/606/N=1433) Before starting salah in train one should fix the direction of qiblah by compass (qiblah numa) or by any other source and then if you know during salah that the train diverted then you can turn towards qiblah, but if it is not known then in case one is totally diverted from the qiblah direction then too salah shall be valid. There is no need to reoffer it. (Baqiyat Fatawa Rashidiya p 154)

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India