Is there a means to harm (sadd al-dhara'i') in the issue of the duration of shortening the prayer during a stay?

The questioner : Many issues pass us by, and sometimes we say we deal with people through education in them. This issue does not fall under that, meaning blocking the means to harm and the like.

The Shaykh : What is a means to harm? The most dangerous thing in it, the most dangerous thing in it, is the issue of fasting.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : The issue of fasting: if we block this and say a person cannot delay it until after Ramadan, the matter is finished and the difficulty is removed.

The questioner : But it is not on the basis of obligation, O Shaykh. In reality, people abroad say the Shaykh does not say it is on the basis of obligation.

The Shaykh : Life is long.

The questioner : Fasting until the second Ramadan, and it is possible to leave it.

The Shaykh : Yes, we say this is the truth: we do not grant a dispensation in it, because, as I told you, we fear that if it accumulates over the months, he will become unable and lazy and leave it. But moving it from the days of heat to the days of winter, there is no objection.