Issue No.1156- When it comes to cities, normal cities should be considered as the criterion. Therefore if a city is situated at a very high or a very low place, it should be treated like normal cities; meaning we should observe the distance it takes in normal cities that he would not hear the adhān or that its residents would not be able to see him.
Issue No.1157- If a person doubts whether or not he has reached the limit of tarakhuṣ, or whether the voice he hears is of adhān or not, he should offer complete prayer. In case, however, he hears the adhān but the words are not clear, he should, as an obligatory precaution, offer both complete as well as qaṣr prayer.
Issue No.1158- If a person reaches a place where the adhān of the city, which is usually pronounced from an elevated place, cannot be heard, he should shorten his prayer, although he may hear an adhān broadcast from a strong loud speaker. If a person’s eyes or ears are stronger or weaker than the usual ones, they are not the criteria; rather the criteria are normal eyes or ears.
Issue No.1159- If a person reaches the point of tarakhuṣ of his hometown (waṭan) while travelling, he should offer complete prayer there. However, if he wishes to continue his journey from there for eight farsakhs or more, he should offer qaṣr prayer once he gets to the point of tarakhuṣ.
Issue No. 1181- If staying for thirty days is not at one place, it would not be sufficient. Therefore, if, for example, he stays at a place for twenty days without intention, then he travels a few farsakhs away to another place and stays there for twenty days, he should offer qaṣr prayer.
Issue No.1161- When a person adopts a place as his residence in a way that he is no longer considered as a traveller there irrespective of whether he has the intention of living there permanently or temporarily (for example, he intends to stay there for two years or more uninterruptedly), this place is considered to be his hometown. This rule also applies to government employees and office workers who may serve every two years at a place. They should treat that place as their hometown.
Issue No. 1169- A traveller who does not intend to stay at a place for ten days but is willing to stay only [for instance] in case his friend arrives or if he finds a proper house, should shorten his prayer.
Issue No. 1171- If a traveller at first decides to stay at a place for ten days but later becomes doubtful or completely abandons this idea and it is, before offering one prayer consisting of four rak‘ats, he should shorten the prayer. However, if this occurs after one has already offered a four rak‘at prayer, he should offer complete prayer so long as he is at that place.
Issue No. 1172- If a person, who has decided to stay at a place for ten days, engaged in offering a fast and abandons the idea of staying there after midday and has already offered a four rak‘at prayer, his fast, is correct, and he should offer complete prayer so long as he stays there. If he has not offered a four rak‘at prayer, the fast of that day is not valid and he should offer qaṣr prayer.
Issue No. 1173- If one doubts whether he had performed a four rak‘at prayer before becoming hesitant or before abandoning the idea of staying for ten days, he should offer qaṣr prayer.
Issue No. 1174- If a traveller starts offering prayer with the intention of offering qaṣr prayer and then decides in the middle of the prayer that he would stay there for ten days or more, he should complete the prayer in four rak‘ats. On the contrary, if he, who has decided to stay at a place for ten days, changes his mind while offering a four rak‘at prayer and has not yet started the third rak‘at, he should complete the prayer with two rak‘ats and shorten his succeeding prayers. But if he has gone into the rukū‘ of the third rak‘at, his prayer is void, and he should shorten his prayer as long as he is there.
Issue No. 1175- If a traveller who has decided to stay at a place for ten days, stays there for more than ten days, he should offer complete prayer as long as he does not start travelling, and it is not necessary that he makes a new intention for staying for a further ten days.
