The Qiblih is indeed He Whom God will make manifest; whenever He moveth, it moveth, until He shall come to rest.
He has also indicated that facing in the direction of the Qiblih is a `fixed requirement for the recitation of obligatory prayer' (Q&A 14 and 67).
He said: `The Qiblih is indeed He Whom God will make manifest; whenever He moveth, it moveth, until He shall come to rest.' Thus was it set down by the Supreme Ordainer when He desired to make mention of this Most Great Beauty.
Bahá'u'lláh, in His Motherbook (the Kitáb-i-Aqdas) prescribes the obligatory prayers; designates the time and period of fasting; prohibits congregational prayer except for the dead; and fixes the Qiblih...
In the Bahá'í Faith the Qiblih (Arabic: قبلة refers to the location that Bahá'ís should face when saying their daily obligatory prayers, and is fixed at the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh, near `Akká, in present day Israel.
The Qiblih was originally identified by the Báb with "the One Whom God will make manifest", a messianic figure predicted by the Báb.
Bahá'u'lláh, who claims to be and is widely recognized as being that figure, in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas confirms the Báb's statement and further ordains his final resting-place as the Qiblih.
He has also indicated that facing in the direction of the Qiblih is a "fixed requirement for the recitation of obligatory prayer" (Q and A 14 and 67).
He said: "The Qiblih is indeed He Whom God will make manifest; whenever He moveth, it moveth, until He shall come to rest." Thus was it set down by the Supreme Ordainer when He desired to make mention of this Most Great Beauty.
Although the Universal House of Justice may not have ruled on exactly what constitutes "facing" the Qiblih, there is a website at http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/ which helps indicate the proper direction given the spherical nature of the earth.
