The Ruling on Shortening and Combining Prayers for an Employee
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Question:
This man asks, Honorable Shaykh, and says: I work at the complex and I go back and forth daily. What is my position regarding shortening and combining the prayers? May Allah reward you.
Answer:
As for the journey going and returning, you shorten and combine. But if you are at the place of work, you will pray in congregation with the mosques, so you do not shorten and do not combine; because you will pray with the congregation in the mosques, so you complete the prayer. If you want to combine the 'Asr prayer with it because you want to return to your town, there is no harm in that. You pray the Zuhr prayer with the congregation and combine the 'Asr prayer after it, shortened; because this is a facilitation for you, a lightening of the burden for you. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
This man asks, Honorable Shaykh, and says: I work at the complex and I go back and forth daily. What is my position regarding shortening and combining the prayers? May Allah reward you.
Answer:
As for the journey going and returning, you shorten and combine. But if you are at the place of work, you will pray in congregation with the mosques, so you do not shorten and do not combine; because you will pray with the congregation in the mosques, so you complete the prayer. If you want to combine the 'Asr prayer with it because you want to return to your town, there is no harm in that. You pray the Zuhr prayer with the congregation and combine the 'Asr prayer after it, shortened; because this is a facilitation for you, a lightening of the burden for you. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/285 — archive.org (6:52)
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