Taking the dispensations for travel with the development of means of transport
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, given the existence of cars and airplanes today and the shortening of distances, are the dispensations for travel still applied?
Answer:
Yes, without a doubt, because the verses and hadiths are general and did not exclude one situation from another,[An-Nisa 4:101]. And in fasting, "and if you are ill" [Al-Baqarah 2:184], this is general for all times and all places, and it did not look at the means of travel. And Allah knows best the conditions of His servants; He knows what will happen and He knows the occurrence of fast vehicles, and yet with this, the Exalted and Glorified did not restrict it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, given the existence of cars and airplanes today and the shortening of distances, are the dispensations for travel still applied?
Answer:
Yes, without a doubt, because the verses and hadiths are general and did not exclude one situation from another,
And when you travel throughout the land, there is no blame upon you for shortening the prayer
وَإِذَا ضَرَبْتُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جُنَاحٌ أَن تَقْصُرُوا مِنَ الصَّلَاةِor on a journey [during them] - then an equal number of days [are to be made up]
أَوْ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِّنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ
Source
قناة «مكة و المدينة»، 07 فتاوى على الهواء - 23 / 03 / 1433هـ _ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (43:02)
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