If you travel outside your country and settle and reside in a city other than your own, which is at a distance that permits shortening the prayer
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Question: If you travel outside your country and settle and reside in a city other than your own, which is at a distance that permits shortening the prayer, and then you wish to visit your original region for a short period that may not exceed four days, is it permissible for you to shorten the prayer during your stay in your original country during this short period, after which you intend to travel to where you live and work outside of it?
Answer: If you travel from your country to another country and settle there and reside in it, with a permanent settlement, and leave your country with a final departure, and then it happens that you travel from your place of residence and settlement to your original country, not for the purpose of returning and settling there, but for one of the purposes, and you pass through it as a traveler in your journey,This requires a detailed explanation:
If you have a wife there who is settled, then it is obligatory for you to complete the prayer; because in that case you are considered a resident of that country due to the presence of your settled and residing wife.
As for if you do not have a wife there, and you have no relatives there, and you merely passed through as a traveler, and then you return to your place of residence and stability, then you shorten the prayer; because you have the ruling of travelers, except if you intend to stay for more than four days, then it is obligatory for you to complete the prayer as well; because you take the ruling of residents, and Allah the Exalted knows best.
Question: If his departure from this country was not a final departure, and perhaps he still has some properties or some houses and relatives there as well, whom he visits once or twice a year, does his stay of up to four days give him the ruling of a traveler, or the ruling of a resident?
Answer: If he has relatives in this country and a wife - he does not have a wife - or if he did not move from this country with a final move, but rather went to another place temporarily for one of the jobs, and then returns to his home and stability, and this country is his place of residence, then he is not allowed to shorten the prayer there. But he mentions that he made a final departure and settled in another home, so that other country became his place of residence.
As for if it is the opposite, and his place of residence is his original home, and he only went to
another place for a temporary job, and then returns to his country, this is not considered a traveler when he comes to his country.
Answer: If you travel from your country to another country and settle there and reside in it, with a permanent settlement, and leave your country with a final departure, and then it happens that you travel from your place of residence and settlement to your original country, not for the purpose of returning and settling there, but for one of the purposes, and you pass through it as a traveler in your journey,This requires a detailed explanation:
If you have a wife there who is settled, then it is obligatory for you to complete the prayer; because in that case you are considered a resident of that country due to the presence of your settled and residing wife.
As for if you do not have a wife there, and you have no relatives there, and you merely passed through as a traveler, and then you return to your place of residence and stability, then you shorten the prayer; because you have the ruling of travelers, except if you intend to stay for more than four days, then it is obligatory for you to complete the prayer as well; because you take the ruling of residents, and Allah the Exalted knows best.
Question: If his departure from this country was not a final departure, and perhaps he still has some properties or some houses and relatives there as well, whom he visits once or twice a year, does his stay of up to four days give him the ruling of a traveler, or the ruling of a resident?
Answer: If he has relatives in this country and a wife - he does not have a wife - or if he did not move from this country with a final move, but rather went to another place temporarily for one of the jobs, and then returns to his home and stability, and this country is his place of residence, then he is not allowed to shorten the prayer there. But he mentions that he made a final departure and settled in another home, so that other country became his place of residence.
As for if it is the opposite, and his place of residence is his original home, and he only went to
another place for a temporary job, and then returns to his country, this is not considered a traveler when he comes to his country.