Ruling on shortening the prayer and breaking the fast in frequent travel

This message is from a listener who has designated his name with the initials (M. A. K.). It is actually a collection of questions, and perhaps we will take one or two of them in this episode. He says: I am a government employee, and my workplace is far from my family. Please note that I visit my family every two weeks, after the end of my workday on Wednesday, and this distance takes approximately four and a half hours. I return to my workplace on Friday. The request: Is it valid for me to shorten the prayer and combine them, such as Dhuhr and Asr, and Maghrib and Isha, or is it only shortening, or combining without shortening, or do I pray every prayer at its time and the traveler’s dispensation does not apply to me? This is due to the frequency of my travel between my main workplace and my family’s location, please noting that I own a car that is at my personal disposal when I go and return? Please inform us, may Allah reward you.
Answer: If a traveler travels to his family or for a need, he shortens and combines, and there is no blame on him, even if this is repeated on his part. Even if he goes to his family every week or every two weeks in a distant location, if his family is in a place that is considered travel, there is nothing wrong with him shortening. He prays two rak'ahs for Dhuhr, Asr, and Isha. There is nothing wrong with him breaking his fast in Ramadan on the road if the travel is long; there is no blame on him in that, and there is no harm. So he has the combining, he has the shortening, and he has breaking the fast in travel, if the distance is considered travel, such as one who, for example, works in Riyadh and travels to al-Qasim, or travels to Hail, or travels to al-Washm, to Shaqra, to such and such. All of this is travel. As long as he is in travel, he has the right to break his fast, except if he intentionally travels for the sake of breaking the fast. If his intention is for the sake of breaking the fast, this is not permissible; because this is a ruse. But if he travels for his need, for the sake of visiting his family and fulfilling his needs, there is no harm in that. And he may pray Dhuhr as two rak'ahs if he is in his travel, and Isha as two rak'ahs in his travel, and Asr as two rak'ahs in his travel. And he may combine between Dhuhr and Asr, and between Maghrib and Isha; there is nothing wrong with that. But if he traveled, for example, at the beginning of the day while fasting, then he arrived at his family’s place during the day, he abstains; because he has arrived at his homeland. He abstains and makes up this day in which he broke his fast. And if he fasted on the road so that he does not have to make it up and did not break his fast, there is no harm. Fasting is permissible and breaking the fast is permissible, and praise be to Allah.
His intention is: Everything that is called travel, he has the right to shorten in it and he has the right to break his fast in it. But if he arrives in his country during the day, if he fasts so that he does not burden himself with making it up, perhaps that is better for him and more appropriate for him... out of caution against the burden, the burden of making it up. And if he breaks his fast then abstains in his country when he arrives, this is what is obligatory upon him, and he makes up that day in which he broke his fast. And so it is with the prayers; he shortens Dhuhr, Asr, and Isha to two, and he has the combining between Dhuhr and Asr, and between Maghrib and Isha in that. Everything that is considered travel, such as eighty kilometers, seventy kilometers, and what is close to them, all of this is called travel. Yes.