Travel
508 questions
Is it permissible for someone afflicted with OCD and hemorrhoids, which necessitate performing istinja (washing after using the toilet) and wudu (ablution) for each prayer, to combine prayers while traveling for a week?
What is the ruling on delaying prayer past its prescribed time due to a lecture or an exam, and what should be done when it is embarrassing to ask to leave for prayer, or when one is prevented from doing so?
Is it permissible to interrupt the invocations (adhkar) of prayer to perform other invocations, such as those for leaving the mosque, getting into a car, or entering one's home, and then resume the invocations of prayer, or what is the ruling?
Is it permissible to shorten the prayer without combining it, or to combine it without shortening it?
Does "pursuing concessions" and my acts of worship being unacceptable—especially the obligatory prayer—apply to me if I resolve to take advantage of the concession of combining and shortening prayers during travel—without scrutinizing the distance of travel or whether it is conventionally considered travel—in order to alleviate rigidity in worship, knowing that I suffer from obsessive doubt (waswasa) and tend to adopt the stricter opinion in matters of scholarly dispute?
What is the ruling on the Farewell Tawaf, and what is required of someone who stayed in Mecca for 15 hours after the Tawaf, awaiting a travel bus, and did not repeat the Tawaf?
Is it permissible for someone who went on a short sea trip and returned after the time for prayer had passed to combine and shorten the prayers upon returning home, or must he perform them without combining or shortening?
Does Ibn Uthaymeen hold the view that a traveler is permitted the concessions of travel, such as combining and shortening prayers, regardless of the distance of his journey, even if it is short, and regardless of the duration of his stay at the travel destination, as long as he does not intend to reside there permanently?
Is it permissible for me to shorten and combine prayers, or to shorten them only, or is none of that permissible for me, knowing that I travel 60 km daily back and forth to college? And is it permissible for me to say the taslim in the third rak'ah if I join a congregational prayer with the intention of shortening it?
Is it permissible for the husband to use the car that his wife sacrificed to purchase for traveling with his second wife, and is it fair to alternate using it for travel, knowing that the first wife lives far from her family? And is it permissible for him to take possessions from her house to use them in the second wife’s house, or to buy new provisions for her house without doing so for his first house, or to equalize the amount of food and fruit between two houses with different numbers of occupants, and is it permissible for him to bring his second wife into her house without her consent?
Are my Dhuhr and Asr prayers valid after combining and shortening them, while delaying the Asr prayer until the time of the Asr Adhan due to obsessive thoughts (waswas) about ablution and prayer?
What is the ruling on combining the Maghrib and Isha prayers due to rain or cold weather that leads to the closure of mosques and the absence of the Adhan for the Isha prayer?
Who is more entitled to sit in the front seat of a car and has priority: the maternal uncle or the older nephew, and what is the evidence for this from the Sunnah?
Is it permissible for me to combine and shorten my Maghrib and Isha prayers if the Maghrib adhan is called while I am on my way to Dammam Airport, which is 75 km away from me, to travel to Jeddah?
Is it permissible to combine the Isha prayer with the Maghrib prayer if there is no rain outside?
What are the Sharia regulations for combining prayers in the cold?
Is it permissible to recite in prayer by combining two recitations (riwayat) in the Qira'at of Asim, and how does one respond to those who dislike the Qira'at?
Is it permissible for a traveler who cannot sleep during a long journey to combine prayers by delaying or advancing them due to extreme fatigue upon his return, and are there other cases in which combining prayers is permissible for non-travelers?
How does one combine the Shafa and Witr prayers, and is it permissible to recite the Fatiha and a Sura together in the third rak'ah of the three-rak'ah Witr prayer according to the Maliki school of thought?
To what extent is it valid to estimate a specific time for the notional combining of two prayers for a person afflicted with incontinence, and was the ablution for the Maghrib prayer invalid if it was performed a certain period before the end of Maghrib time?
Is it permissible for one afflicted with urinary incontinence, who performs ablution for each prayer, to combine the Maghrib and Isha prayers as a "combination of advancement" (jam‘ taqdim) with a single ablution due to rain? And is his prayer valid if he prays Maghrib with the Imam, then renews his ablution and prays Isha with him thereafter?
Is it permissible for a traveler to shorten and combine prayers if the duration of his travel is one month, subject to increase or decrease?
What is the ruling on combining the Maghrib and Isha prayers without shortening them, due to the long daytime in Canada, and the questioner's desire to sleep early in order to wake up for Fajr prayer?
Is it permissible for a traveler who has completed the prayer behind the Imam to shorten and combine other prayers later, either alone or in another place?