 Salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Welcome to Ahkam SOS, the show that discusses Islamic duties and practices by His Eminence, the Grand Ayatullah, Sayyid Salli al-Kishirazi. May Allah prolong his life. I'm your host, Mohsin Shah and joining me is Shaykh Ali Ma'a Salamu alaikum Shaykh Maa. Salam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. How are you? I'm fine. Thank you. Shaykh Allah, over the last couple of episodes we've been discussing Salah, we've been looking at different types of Salah, different rulings and criteria. Let us talk about some miscellaneous issues in regards to Salah. One is that without careers sometimes we have to travel. It's very common to have sailors and pilots, but also we have those who are astronauts who sometimes have to live on a space station that is travelling around the earth. Sometimes we have those in the marines and the navy that live in submarines which are continuously moving. What is the ruling for those individuals? Do they have to pray Qasr Salah or they pray in full? I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Satan, the accursed Satan. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds, and peace be upon Muhammad and those who travel for such distances away from the earth, for example, or deep in the sea and ocean and such like and that's many of their job. They're not going for the leisure for a trip because it's part of their job and work or sometimes research. Scientists are sent to do some research. They stay for months in the space, for example. In this case, if it's that their own job or study or research, in this case they have to pray in full and fast as well because now they become the kathir of Saffar. They travel often. The reason for such individuals is that they have to pray fast and pray in full. They cannot pray Qasr at all. It doesn't matter if you travel up or down or horizontal or vertical. At the end of the day, you are traveling. So if it's for work and study and continuous trouble, then basically you have to pray in full. If it's just a leisure, you're going for a day or two days. Now they have packages for this holiday space where you can actually pay huge money and go to space, for example. That's just a leisure. For three days for a week, then the Salah will be Qasr, of course, in the space. But otherwise if it's for work, for study, for research that work-related, the Salah will be full and, of course, fast and will be full as well and complete. Masha'Allah. What about if someone is travelling via space? Let's say that we're living in the universe of Star Wars and Star Trek and we are travelling from one planet to another planet. Now we get on board the spaceship and it's going to take us maybe three or four months to get to our destination. So we're on this spaceship and we're living on this spaceship. Are our prayers Qasr or they're full? We're going out of leisure and we're going and we're travelling to a new destination. Maybe we want to move to a new planet. During that travelling period, three or four months, is our prayer Qasr or is it in full? If the trip is not work-related or study-related, as I've mentioned, because you are migrating from one planet to another planet, for example, if it's possible in the future. In this case, on the way you pray Qasr, in the first trip you're going to the moon, for example, or other planets. As we travel from, let's say, from India to the U.S. or Canada, and it takes about 20 hours, let's say, and you want to go, for example. So you pray all the Salah in the airplane Qasr. That's it. You pray Qasr. So by the time you get there, of course, when you get to that planet or that location, if you stay there for 10 days or more, then you pray in full. You make the intention of staying there, residing there, then you pray in full. Otherwise, if you stay there for just two or three days and you come back by the spaceship, then you pray Qasr as well. So the hukumas are similar to the ones on the earth. It depends on the intention and what you're intending for. Is it work? Is it study? Or just pleasure and holiday? Sheikh Salam, some may argue that, oh, we're on the moon for 20 days. But the moon is rotating around the earth. The moon is moving and travelling around the earth. Therefore, we are also travelling and we don't have to pray before Salah. Is this a valid argument? Not really because even us on the earth, we're moving as well. The earth is moving. Rotating around the sun. Rotating as well by itself. So no, because you are in a new location and you migrate to the moon, for example, and you stayed more than 10 days, then you have to pray in full or lessen that you pray Qasr. The same rules applies whether on earth or on the moon. You are migrating or going for holiday, for example, for a week there and come back. You still have to apply the Qasr or in full. Mashallah, inshallah, Sheikh. I mean you were able to visit space one day and have a look at the beautiful sciences that Allah SWT has created. Sheikh, in regards to travelling a lot, frequent travelling, if there's a, let's say there's a lady, she's from Birmingham, and mashallah she's got married and now she lives in London. But she visits her parents every week. So every weekend she'll go in the car, two hour drive and she'll go visit her parents. When she goes there, does she have to pray Qasr Salah or the full Salah? Now mind you, she doesn't live there anymore. Her home is in London now. But it's very frequent. She goes every weekend to see her parents. Does she pray Qasr or does she pray the full Salah? If she abandoned, as you mentioned, the city that she used to live with her parents. So she abandoned, as they say, i'raab. If she abandoned and left that city, that she no longer wants to come back and live there with her parents. In this case, when she goes there, she prays Qasr. Otherwise, if she also intending to stay there again and go back again, and she counts as the first hometown and London is her second hometown, whenever she goes there she prays in full. Because now she has two hometowns, Birmingham and London. So it depends on intention. So when she abandoned her previous hometown and now she has a new hometown which is called London, in this case, when she goes there, she prays Qasr. Otherwise, if it's still her first hometown, then she prays in full. It depends on the intention. What about those who travel frequently for studying? I mean, when I was at university in London, we had a lot of students from Luton and Bedford. They'll get the training. It'll take them half an hour, 45 minutes to get into London from where they live. But they lived, you could say 14, 15, 16 miles away from M25. So it is like for them, they're travelling and it is within the limit, the criteria for Qasr prayer. For them, do they pray Qasr or is it a full prayer for them? Because that place in which they used to study there is no longer their place of study and residing. And as I mentioned, if he goes every week to London to study and come back, it's as if the person who works there and comes back every week. Of course, that individual will have to pray in full and fast because that's a lot of suffering, frequent trouble and often travelling there for work or study. But now he's going there to visit somebody, to meet somebody. In this case, he's no longer a frequent traveller. In this case, he has to shorten his Salah and break his fast. Okay, so if he's travelling for class and lectures, he has to pray the full Salah. Exactly. But if he's like doing it after he's finished his studies and he's going to visit old friends or old teachers or something, then he has to pray Qasr Salah. Exactly. Unless if he makes the intention of staying 10 days or more. Okay. That's fine. Then he can pray full and fast the whole month if he stayed the whole month from Ramadan, of course. Sheikhullah, what happens when I'm at my place of residence? It is time for Zohar. The other one has gone. I'm busy getting ready. I've got a plane to catch. I don't pray my Salah. I go to the airport. I get on the plane. I'm travelling now and I have a moment now to pray. Do I pray my prayer in full or do I do it in Qasr? Because when I left, it was time for Zohar prayer. But I purposely delayed it because I was busy and I had a plane to catch. Now I've travelled a couple of hundred miles. Do I pray full or do I pray Qasr on the plane? Well, you had the option of praying full in your own hometown before you leave home towards the airport or even the airport if you had time after you checked in your bags for example and luggage, you could have went to the prayer rooms and prayed in full if the airport was inside the city. Not outside, within the distance of where you can pray Qasr. If the airport was near the city, your hometown. So you could have prayed it in full, back home or on your way to the airport for example inside the airport. Otherwise, if you haven't prayed it, then you can pray it in the airplane if there is not enough time when reaching the destination because sometimes the time is too short. The time you arrive, it's sunset and the Adan Maghrib would call there. So you have to pray in the airplane. So you pray Qasr in the airplane for example. Unless you, when you arrive there, destination and you have enough time let's say it's only one hour flight to Paris from London which is very close and it's summer time while you have at least well eight, ten hours of daytime. So when you arrive in Paris for example from London you do the intention of staying ten days in Iqamah in Paris for example and you pray the same Salat al-Duhur in full, fine. But with the intention of staying there at least ten days or more. So that's the other way of making this happen. Thank you very much Sheikhna. And thank you to all the viewers for joining us on this episode of Iqamah SOS. Insha'Allah we'll be back with a new episode and a new discussion with Sheikhna Limash insha'Allah. Until then, salam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.