How do people pray on the moon?
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A Muslim on the moon or any other planet prays as do the people on Earth, and he directs his prayer towards the Earth, for the Earth is his qiblah; this is based on Allah's saying: "And wherever you are, turn your faces toward it." The "shatr" of a thing means its direction, and the direction of the Kaaba for him is the direction in which the Earth is located.
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