Guidelines for Shortening the Prayer While Traveling
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Question:
A questioner asks: What are the guidelines for shortening the prayer, and what is the ruling on shortening the prayer while traveling, whether the distance is far or near?
Answer:
Shortening the prayer while traveling is a dispensation, and it is better than completing the prayer. Travel has guidelines: it must be a permissible journey, not a journey of sin, and the distance must be that of a two-day journey for a mount, which is currently estimated at approximately eighty kilometers. These are the guidelines for the travel in which the prayer is shortened. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
A questioner asks: What are the guidelines for shortening the prayer, and what is the ruling on shortening the prayer while traveling, whether the distance is far or near?
Answer:
Shortening the prayer while traveling is a dispensation, and it is better than completing the prayer. Travel has guidelines: it must be a permissible journey, not a journey of sin, and the distance must be that of a two-day journey for a mount, which is currently estimated at approximately eighty kilometers. These are the guidelines for the travel in which the prayer is shortened. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/244 — archive.org (10:20)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.