Is there a requirement that there be a need for the intention of not specifying the journey?
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The questioner : If you would allow me, what is added to the intention of travel is this.
The Shaykh: How?
The questioner : What is added to the intention of not specifying the journey is that there be a need?
The Shaykh : Is there a need?
The questioner : That there be a need? And is it not a condition that there be a need for this intention?
The Shaykh : That there be a need for this traveler?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So what is the need, then?
The questioner : A person traveling to Iraq, for example, wants to deliver a shipment and return. When does he deliver it? In two days, three, four, five, ten, or twenty? When he delivers it, he returns. As for this one, for example, the visitor, meaning she has no need. When does she finish? She returns. So is the need a condition with the intention? Or does the need have no relation to it?
The Shaykh : I do not imagine a person acting in a certain way, especially traveling from one country to another, without having a need.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So it seems you mean a need of a specific kind? Or why does a person leave his home? In vain to the street, to the market, to, to, and so on? There must be a need.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Therefore, your question needs clarification, because the answer is that there must be a need. So what excludes it?
The questioner : Visiting, for example, is a visit.
The Shaykh : A visit, okay. Then distinguish between visiting his mother and father while he is a resident, and visiting a friend of his, in which case he is a stranger to him.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : There is a difference. So if he visits his father and mother, for example, it is like the questioner : ’s case, which I thought, when she told me, "I am with my family," that she was with her father. We said, "Then all your previous prayers had to be complete and you could not shorten them." But when she mentioned that it was not her father, but her brother or sister, the conversation proceeded as you heard. Therefore, visiting also has forms and types.
The questioner : She has not specified it now. So is it considered a need?
The Shaykh : It has been discussed previously.
The Shaykh: How?
The questioner : What is added to the intention of not specifying the journey is that there be a need?
The Shaykh : Is there a need?
The questioner : That there be a need? And is it not a condition that there be a need for this intention?
The Shaykh : That there be a need for this traveler?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So what is the need, then?
The questioner : A person traveling to Iraq, for example, wants to deliver a shipment and return. When does he deliver it? In two days, three, four, five, ten, or twenty? When he delivers it, he returns. As for this one, for example, the visitor, meaning she has no need. When does she finish? She returns. So is the need a condition with the intention? Or does the need have no relation to it?
The Shaykh : I do not imagine a person acting in a certain way, especially traveling from one country to another, without having a need.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So it seems you mean a need of a specific kind? Or why does a person leave his home? In vain to the street, to the market, to, to, and so on? There must be a need.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Therefore, your question needs clarification, because the answer is that there must be a need. So what excludes it?
The questioner : Visiting, for example, is a visit.
The Shaykh : A visit, okay. Then distinguish between visiting his mother and father while he is a resident, and visiting a friend of his, in which case he is a stranger to him.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : There is a difference. So if he visits his father and mother, for example, it is like the questioner : ’s case, which I thought, when she told me, "I am with my family," that she was with her father. We said, "Then all your previous prayers had to be complete and you could not shorten them." But when she mentioned that it was not her father, but her brother or sister, the conversation proceeded as you heard. Therefore, visiting also has forms and types.
The questioner : She has not specified it now. So is it considered a need?
The Shaykh : It has been discussed previously.
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