Menentukan Arah Kiblat Dengan Hembusan Angin (Perspektif Fiqh dan Sains)

Abstract

[Title: Study of Geodetic Qibla Direction Determination] Qiblah is an important direction for Muslims exposes himself while performing prayers. Qiblah direction determination becomes a problem when the location of a place far away from the Kaaba. Therefore we need a method to determine the exact direction of Qibla in areas far from the Kaaba, in this study Semarang. This paper examines the difference of the direction of Qibla on three calculation surface: ellipsoid, spherical and mercator map. Then these Qibla direction accuracies on three calculation surface were compared with Qibla direction resulting from Rashdul Qibla Measurement. The difference of ellipsoid Qibla direction that has been corrected and spherical Qibla direction has a much smaller difference in the amount of 45.7 " compared with Mercator Qibla Direction. The difference of ellipsoid qibla direction and Qibla direction resulting from Rashdul Qibla Measurement is 00 7' 58,24". While the difference of spherical Qibla direction and Qibla direction resulting from Rashdul Qibla Measurement is 00 2' 49,94".