Combining and Shortening Prayers When Going Out to the Open Country
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Question:
This questioner says: There is always some kind of disagreement regarding travel, especially when going out to the desert to combine and shorten prayers. Do you have any guidance on this, may Allah preserve you?
Answer:
If the outing is for pleasure and you do not know where you are heading, then you have no right to combine or shorten the prayers, because you are not travelers. However, if you intend a specific place where you will enjoy yourselves, and it is eighty kilometers or more from your town, then you may shorten and combine the prayers. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you,
This questioner says: There is always some kind of disagreement regarding travel, especially when going out to the desert to combine and shorten prayers. Do you have any guidance on this, may Allah preserve you?
Answer:
If the outing is for pleasure and you do not know where you are heading, then you have no right to combine or shorten the prayers, because you are not travelers. However, if you intend a specific place where you will enjoy yourselves, and it is eighty kilometers or more from your town, then you may shorten and combine the prayers. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you,
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/264 — archive.org (10:13)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.