Does a resident complete the prayer if he visits his original homeland?
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The Shaykh : He says: If a person is residing in a country with his family, and then he goes to visit his original homeland, does he complete the prayer or not? Please inform us, may Allah reward you with good. If he has moved from his first country to this second country, then if he travels to the first country, he is a traveler and may avail himself of the dispensations for travel, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) availed himself of the dispensations for travel in Makkah, even though he was one of its people. That is to say, he would say, for example, "After a year, we will go to such-and-such a country." The car is going to my hometown. Yes, but twenty years have passed since he left.
The important point is that as long as he has not intended to reside indefinitely in the second country, he is a traveler, even if the period is long. This is the stronger position. Some scholars say no; if he intends to reside for more than four days, or five days, or fifteen days, or nineteen days, then he must complete the prayer. There is scholarly disagreement on this issue, and there is no sin on him for any of these estimates.
Because a restriction requires evidence, and there is no evidence. As long as a person intends to return to his country, but, for example, he stays to fulfill a need or something similar, he shortens the prayer. However, if he left his first country with the intention of residing in the second country, and then changed his mind, then in the second country he is not a temporary visitor; he is a settler. This is "bariyan," a mistake, "bariyan," written with a shaddah on the ra and a ya.
The important point is that as long as he has not intended to reside indefinitely in the second country, he is a traveler, even if the period is long. This is the stronger position. Some scholars say no; if he intends to reside for more than four days, or five days, or fifteen days, or nineteen days, then he must complete the prayer. There is scholarly disagreement on this issue, and there is no sin on him for any of these estimates.
Because a restriction requires evidence, and there is no evidence. As long as a person intends to return to his country, but, for example, he stays to fulfill a need or something similar, he shortens the prayer. However, if he left his first country with the intention of residing in the second country, and then changed his mind, then in the second country he is not a temporary visitor; he is a settler. This is "bariyan," a mistake, "bariyan," written with a shaddah on the ra and a ya.
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الفتاوى الثلاثية (2) -1 — binothaimeen.net (27:51)
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