On the Possibility of Istiqbāl al-Qibla on a Sphere Earth

We, as the contemporary Muslims, who believe that we should both face qibla while praying and live on a sphere globe, found ourselves probably in a paradox, which we are not aware of. That the shape of the world is a globe was engraved in our subconscious through the visuality of either an apple or an orange since the years of primary school. When we asked ourselves or our teachers ‘’Well then, why don’t we drop down?’’ by imagining ourselves most of the time as very small bats, hanged on a huge ball from the legs, it was ‘’law of gravity’’ that lent a helping hand to us and our curiosity was satisfied to some extent. I call it “to some extent” because either the shape of the world or the law of gravity was not something that each of us experience or observe individually. What most of us did was just to rely on those, who say that they visited space or moon and took the pictures of the world therefrom or that performed several studies, observations and tests about the respective issues. It was neither something that came to our minds individually to make any observation or tests about the shape of the world or think deeply about this matter nor was it something that each of us could cope with. In order to be able to do so, it was both required to have advanced level of information in many fields and expensive technological instruments, which will not be vouchsafed to everybody. Therefore, as in many other disciplines, what we all did was to understand and rationalize ‘’in our own way’’ what was told to us about these issues. We somehow accepted that the world is spherically shaped and left it aside as an apodictic information and ignored to a large extent the fact that such recognition may contradict with any religious order. As the Muslims, who are the object of the following order; “So turn your face toward al-Masjid al-Haram. And wherever you [believers] are, turn your faces toward it [in prayer].” (al-Baqarah 2/144) and that are requested to turn their faces towards al-Masjid al-Haram while praying, we always kept away from confronting the following question; “how possible is it to turn our faces towards al-Masjid al-Haram in a world, shaped spherically?”. As one of the Muslims, who believe in both of these two seemingly contradicting things together to say the least, it was likewise a surprising thing to see the confusion on the face of anybody, whom I asked this question that personally mixed up my mind. Unfortunately, the researches, which I made in the hope of finding a ready book, article, study or letter that will save me from struggling