What is better for the traveler: shortening the prayer or completing it, and breaking the fast or fasting?
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Which is better for the traveler, regarding shortening the prayer, and regarding breaking the fast?
The Shaykh:
Which one?
The questioner:
Which is better for the traveler, regarding shortening the prayer, and regarding breaking the fast in fasting? Is it better for him to shorten and break the fast, or to complete and fast?
The Shaykh:
This is what we told you. We said that Allah loves, as in the hadith, that His dispensations be taken. So if Allah loves that His dispensations be taken, then it is better for the traveler to break his fast and to shorten his prayer.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Which is better for the traveler, regarding shortening the prayer, and regarding breaking the fast?
The Shaykh:
Which one?
The questioner:
Which is better for the traveler, regarding shortening the prayer, and regarding breaking the fast in fasting? Is it better for him to shorten and break the fast, or to complete and fast?
The Shaykh:
This is what we told you. We said that Allah loves, as in the hadith, that His dispensations be taken. So if Allah loves that His dispensations be taken, then it is better for the traveler to break his fast and to shorten his prayer.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 15-04-1435هـ — af.org.sa (59:20)
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