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this is talking about Prayer not Impossibility of Praying - I didn't ruin it but make it more clear and simple :D

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 Due to the sphericity of the earth, a prayer in any direction will point towards the sky/outer-space, not Mecca.
-For people who are praying a great distance from Mecca, their qiblah would be somewhere down towards the ground, and the people who are located on the opposite 'side' of the earth would have to pray vertically downward towards the center of the earth.
-So, for example, Muslims in the Solomon Islands in fact blaspheme against Allah, because they defecate toward the direction of the Ka'aba when they answer the call of nature.
-Even if we were to use the traditional Muslim method of determining qiblah (i.e. a [[W:Great circle|great circle]]) this would still be blasphemous because you would be simultaneously praying with your face and backside aimed towards the Ka'aba.
-There would also be one location on Earth where a Muslim could be standing at the opposite side of Earth in relation to the Ka'aba (for example if the Ka'aba was at the North Pole and the Muslim was standing on the South Pole). For this location, any direction for all 360 degrees would be facing 'towards' Mecca and consequently, there would be no one direction that would be the correct one.
 This is just [[The Ramadan Pole Paradox|one of the problems]] which indirectly indicate that the narrator/writer of the Qur'an believed in a flat earth model.