If I travel to visit some of my relatives, should I shorten the prayer, given that I am comfortable with them and I do not know when I will return to my country?
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The questioner : If you travel from one place to another, for example to the house of a relative, and you are completely comfortable there, meaning, should you shorten the prayer?
The Shaykh : Did you intend to stay?
The questioner : For a specific number of days until you return, for example, you visit friends and then return. This stay of yours, you did not intend a specific duration, did you?
The Shaykh : This is a matter that has been discussed in detail previously. You judge yourself. If you intended to stay, and this intention is necessitated by your reality—your reality being that you will be attending to your affairs and work, so you are busy and occupied—then you judge yourself. If you are going for rest, then you judge yourself. Your psychological state and your situation determine whether you are in the ruling of a traveler or in the ruling of a resident.
The Shaykh : Did you intend to stay?
The questioner : For a specific number of days until you return, for example, you visit friends and then return. This stay of yours, you did not intend a specific duration, did you?
The Shaykh : This is a matter that has been discussed in detail previously. You judge yourself. If you intended to stay, and this intention is necessitated by your reality—your reality being that you will be attending to your affairs and work, so you are busy and occupied—then you judge yourself. If you are going for rest, then you judge yourself. Your psychological state and your situation determine whether you are in the ruling of a traveler or in the ruling of a resident.