If I travel to some of my relatives, do I shorten the prayer? I am comfortable with them and I do not know when I will return to my country.

The questioner: Oh Shaykh, I used to travel from one place to another, oh Shaykh.

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner: If I travel from one place to another, for example to the house of, for example, one of my relatives, and I am completely comfortable there, do I shorten the prayer?

The Shaykh: Did you intend to stay?

The questioner: I do not have a specific number of days until I return, for example, I go shopping, I visit friends, and so on, and then I return. This stay of mine; I did not intend a specific duration, right?

The Shaykh: This issue has been discussed in detail previously. You must judge yourself. If you intended to stay, and this intention is necessitated by your reality, what is your reality? Are you going to handle your affairs and work that you are following up on, so you are busy and occupied, and so on? Or are you going to relax? You judge for yourself; that is, study your psychology and your situation, for that is what determines whether you are in the ruling of a traveler or in the ruling of a resident.