 As-Salaamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh. Welcome to Ahkam SOS, the show that discusses Islamic duties and practices by His Eminence, the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadik Shirazi. I'm your host, Mohsin Shirah, and joining me is Sheikh Ali Ma'ash. As-Salaamu Alaykum Sheikhna. As-Salaamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah. How are you this evening, Sheikh? Alhamdulillah, thank you. Sheikh, we've been discussing Qasr prayers and the prayers of a traveler. We went through the conditions and the criteria. We went through travelling more than 44 kilometres there and back. We discussed that you travel from the surrounding, outside the border of your city, the near, not to change the near, the purpose of travel. It has to be halal. It can't be a haram purpose. Is there any other conditions? And especially what about those who are travelers like gypsies or nomads? What about those people? I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Satan and the accursed. In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. Alhamdulillah, Lord of the worlds. I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed. And peace be upon Muhammad, the most Merciful, and the most Merciful. The sixth criteria with regards to the Salat of the Musafer is that that individual should not be a nomad or one of those Bedouin tribes who occasionally travels to get water or pastures to feed his cattle. They usually travel every three months, every six months from one place to another, maybe even less every month, for example, they travel. In the situations, they cannot pray Qasr because they're always in trouble. They're similar to the one who travels for work, for example, or study. In this case, they shouldn't actually pray Qasr. They have to pray in full in their journeys. And of course, they cannot basically follow the rule of Salat al-Qasr in this situation. If the nomad, for example, travels for, let's say Hajj or Umrah and such like, in this situation, those who travel often for these purposes, as I've said, to seek water, to seek such and such, if they go and travel for Hajj, for example, then they have to shorten the Salah. In this situation, no, the rule changes. Now they're going for Hajj, for example. In this situation, they have to pray Qasr. Is that the same also for those people who travel a lot for business, so merchants, pilots, sailors, let's say there's an individual, he goes to Saudi Arabia every three weeks because of his business. So it's a frequent, regular travel for work. But this time he's going for Hajj. Would he pray full Salah or Qasr Salah for the Hajj period that he's going for? He's going for pilgrimage. The same rule applies as to the nomads applied to those who work as pilots, drivers, businessmen who travel to the holy cities in Arabia. The same situation, if they go for Hajj or for pleasure as a holiday, for example, to spend, let's say a week in Jeddah, for example, or in such places that they used to go to work there occasionally, in this situation they have to pray Qasr because this journey now is a pilgrimage journey or a holiday journey is no longer known to be as the title of business journey or work journey in which they have to pray full and fast the whole month from Allah. In the situation, no, they become just normal travelers and they have to shorten the Salah whenever they are in that city. Mashallah, Mashallah. Sheikhna, are there any other conditions or criteria? One is obviously not to be a nomad traveler. Is there any other criteria in regards to the cost of price? The seventh criteria is the one whose job does not involve frequent traveling. As we mentioned and we discussed this many times, that this criteria is important to be able to attain the condition of a traveler and a Musafer. You should not be a frequent traveler as a businessman, for example. So if you travel often to work and that week, for example, then you cannot pray Qasr. That's your job. That's the place you go there, although it's not your hometown, not even your second hometown. If I travel from Manchester to London every day, Manchester is my hometown, for example. London is not my hometown. But because I work there every day, I travel every day. In this case, London would be, when I arrive there, I pray as full because I work there, I study there and such like. But if I go once for a holiday, for a day, let's say a weekend out, in this case I become a Musafer and I have to pray Qasr in this situation. What about the final criteria? What is the final criteria? The final criteria is to reach city limits. Again, the one who lives in hometown, he must make sure that he reaches a place or location, as we explained previously, known as Had al-Tarakhus. The place in which you are permitted to break your fast and to shorten your Salah. If that is met, then you can shorten your Salah and pray Qasr. And as I mentioned, just seven, eight, few kilometers from the border of your city when the sound of the adhan disappears and when the walls of that city of the houses disappear and you drive for, let's say, or even walk or run for a few kilometers and the sound of that disappears, then you start to pray Qasr in this situation. So that's the last condition for the one who wishes to trouble and make sure that he passes this stage and the limit and the boundary from his hometown or the place he is writing. Awesome. Thank you, Sheikh. Sheikh, is there actually Qadha prayers for Qasr prayers or do you have to pray in full? We have a narration which states that pray whatever you missed as you missed. Salik mafaat ka mafaat. As you missed them, you do the Qadha as they were. So if you were, let's say, in two weeks travel, ziyara, or holiday and let's say for whatever reason you missed those two weeks of prayers and you were as a Musaaf or Qasr prayers, when you come back home, you pray those two weeks as Qasr, as you missed them. Or if you missed them, you were there for 10 days or more. In other words, you stayed there. You plan to stay there for 10 plus days and the situation and you pray them in full. You supposed to pray them in full. In the situation, you pray them as full. So what was the condition and the state and the situation of the Salah at that time? Was it Qasr? You pray the Salah Qadha as Qasr. Was it full? You pray the Qadha as full. It bends. What about those who deliberately pray the Salah in full? So if we're going on a journey, this we're going to spend three days in Manchester and the individual says, oh I don't need to pray Qasr, so I can pray the whole amount. Does he have to repeat his Salah or is his full Salah accepted? Well, if they are as the travelers and Musaafir, they must pray Qasr. They're not allowed to pray in full. They have to repeat the Salah inside the time to repeat it as Qasr, to shorten the Salah, or to do the Qadha afterwards. If you know that you're a traveler and you must pray Qasr, but you pray in full, the Salah must repeat it. And if outside the time, they have to do the Qadha. As mentioned, they missed it as Qasr, they have to pray Qasr. They cannot pray it inside or outside the time in full. What if it was done accidentally? Because obviously Salah has and does become a habit. So if a Musaafir says, oh it's Zuhar time, I need to go pray Zuhar, he forgets that he's a Musaafir and he prays the full four Qadha. Does he have to repay the Salah? Does he have to do again the Qasr Salah? Or I mean if it's after the time, does he have to pray Qadha? Or it's okay, it was a mistake, it doesn't matter. Well if one knows that he's traveling, because that's the first scenario, and he must shorten his Salah, he knows. But he performs the Salah unintentionally in full. He knows he's a traveler and he must perform it as Qasr, but unintentionally he prays full. In this case the Salah is void, so he must re-pray it again as Qasr, because that is the Hukum now as a traveler to pray the Salah as Qasr. However if the one who doesn't know whether or not he's obliged to shorten his Salah during the travel, he's not sure. If he performs the Salah in full, in this situation as the said states, his Salah is valid. He doesn't know. Sometimes I know and I never do it, the Salah is vital. Or I know and unintentionally I forget to actually do it in Qasr. In this situation, the Hukum is different. Here the situation is that the one he doesn't know whether or not he is obliged to shorten the Salah. He doesn't know the Hukum. He's not sure. In this case his Salah is valid. In other words, he doesn't have to repeat the Salah. The other scenario is that if somebody forgets that he's traveling and he performs the Salah in full, he forgets. He thinks that he is in his own hometown, especially if you go back, for example, to your own countries, because sometimes our previous homelands, we just left them. So they no longer become our homelands. So we just go for holidays. So you go back home there and you want to pray. Qasr, but you forget. So you pray in full. The said states that if he remembers that within the Salah prescribed time, that individual pray and repeat the Salah again in Qasr, inside the time. However, if the time was expired, in this situation, it is not mandatory for him to perform the Qabaa of the Salah. Is he just forgets? And forgetting sometimes happens for the one who goes back to his hometown, previous home time, that he no longer counts as his own hometown now. So inside the time, he prays it as Qasr again. Outside the time, there's no issue with it. Awesome. Thank you very much, Sheikhna, for this discussion. And thank you for all the viewers for joining us. InshaAllah, we'll have a new topic on the next episode. Until then, travel safe and make sure you pray your Qadar prayers properly and your Qasr prayers properly. InshaAllah, we'll see you soon. Take care. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.