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Is it permissible to shorten the Friday prayer and combine it with the 'Asr prayer for one who habitually goes out to the desert at the end of every week?

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Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: I am a person who goes to the desert on Thursday and Friday, and it is far from the cities. The question is: Do I shorten the Friday prayer and combine it with the 'Asr prayer, or do I pray it as four rak'ahs?

Answer:
First, the fact that you habitually go out on Friday for a picnic is not recommended, because you deprive yourself of the virtue of Friday and the day of Friday and attending the Friday prayer. As for going out on some Fridays, there is nothing wrong with it. But persisting in doing so is not recommended of you, and it involves being deprived of the virtue. However, if you go out for a task, going out for a task that is not a picnic every Friday.
Then you do not have to pray the Friday prayer, as long as you are in the desert or in a place where the Friday prayer is not held, you do not have to pray the Friday prayer. You have to pray the Zuhr prayer and shorten it. You pray the Zuhr prayer shortened and combine the 'Asr prayer with it. As for the Friday prayer, you do not have to pray the Friday prayer, and do not intend it as a Friday prayer. Intend it as Zuhr and shorten it to two rak'ahs. If you intend it as a Friday prayer, it is not valid.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل تقصر صلاة الجمعة وتجمع مع العصر لمن اعتاد الخروج للبر نهاية كل أسبوع؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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