The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.1152- A person who has not adopted a hometown (waṭan) for himself, and tours different cities, should offer complete prayer.

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Issue No.1162- If a person lives in two places, e.g., he lives in one city for six months, and in another city for another six months, both of them are considered to be his hometowns and it is even possible that one may have three hometowns.

Issue No.1163- If a person abandons a place where he used to live and which was his hometown [i.e., he has no longer the intention to live there] he should shorten the prayer even though he sometimes goes there to visit his relatives and friends, and irrespective of whether he owns a property there and his relatives and family live there or not unless he intends to stay there for ten days, in the case of which, he should shorten his prayer while there. Similarly, if a person adopts a place other than his original home to be as his residence, and stays there for six months more or less, and then abandons it, he should shorten his prayer there irrespective of whether he has a property there or not.

Issue No.1165- What was said in the previous issue about intending to stay at a place for ten days means that one should intend to stay there for ten “days” therefore the night before and the night after this are not included. Therefore, as soon as he determines that he will stay there from the fajr adhān on the first day up to the maghrib time of the tenth day, he should offer complete prayer. Likewise, he should offer complete prayer, if he intends to stay there from the midday of the first day up to midday of the eleventh day.

Issue No.1166- A traveller who intends to stay at a place for ten days can stay at a few places provided that their distance is so little and it may be said that he is not travelling (for example, one or two kilometres or more). There is no difference between small cities or big cities. That is to say, the same rule applies to both “great cities” and “small cities” with no difference between them.

Issue No.1167- If a traveller who wants to stay at a place for ten days, has decided at the very outset, to travel to the surrounding places during the period of ten days, and if the place he wants to go to is not so far to be reckoned as a part of the journey, he should offer complete prayer. However, if it is so far that it will be counted part of the journey; he should offer qaṣr prayer during the whole ten days.

Issue No.1168- If a traveller has decided to stay at a place for ten days, but at the same time, considers it probable that he may have to leave earlier because of some reason, if then the probability is so low that it is ignored, he should offer complete prayer. In case however, the probability is high he should offer shortened prayer.

Issue No. 1170- If a traveller knows, for example, that ten days or more remain before the month ends, and decides to stay at a place until the end of the month, he should offer complete prayer. But if he does not know as to how many days are left until the end of the month, and decides to stay until the end of the month, he should offer complete prayer if in fact there remain ten days or more until the end of the month.

Issue No. 1182- A traveller can offer either complete or qaṣr prayer at the following four places: city of “Mecca”, city of “Medina” (regarding these two cities, the rule applies to both new city as well as the old one) Masjid of Kufa, and in the shrine of Imam Husain (as). It is meant by the shrine under the dome and porches. Of course, offering complete prayer at these places is preferred.

Issue No. 1183- If a person who knows he is a traveller and should offer qaṣr prayer, intentionally offers complete prayer, his prayer is void. Also, if he forgets that he is a traveller or that a traveller should offer qaṣr prayer, and offers complete prayer he should repeat the prayer. However, if he never knew or heard that a traveller should offer qaṣr prayer, and he offered complete prayer, his prayer will be in order.

Issue No. 1185- A person who forgets that he is a traveller and offers complete prayer, then recollects this within the prayer time, should offer qaṣr prayer, and if he realizes this after the prescribed time for the prayer, it is not obligatory on him to offer qaḍā of that prayer.