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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islamic Laws of Ayatullah Khui Prayers of a Traveller A traveller should curtail the midday, afternoon, and night prayers tie. he should perform two units instead of four) subject to the fulfillment of following eight conditions: (i) The first condition is that his journey is not less than 8 legal farsakh (or farsangs). A legal farsakh is a little less than 5 1/2 kilometers.

(As regards it's conversion into miles 8 farsakh are equal to 28 miles approximately). 1281. A person, the total of whose outward journey and return journey is 8 farsakh, and neither his outward journey nor his return journey is less than 4 farsakh, should shorten his prayers. In case, therefore, his outward journey is 3 farsakh and his return journey is 5 farsakh or vice verse he should offer complete prayers (i.e. prayers consisting of four units). 1282.

If the total distance of outward and return journey is 8 farsakh, the traveller should shorten his prayers even though he may not return on the same day or night. However it is better that he should also offer complete prayers. 1283.

If a brief journey is less than 8 farsakh or the person does not know whether or not his journey is 8 farsakh, he should not shorten his prayers, and if he doubts whether or not his journey is 8 farsakh, it is not necessary for him to make investigation in the matter, and should offer complete prayers. 1284. If an Adil or a reliable person tells a traveller that the distance of his journey consists of 8 farsakh, he should shorten his prayers. 1285.

If s person, who believes that the distance of his journey consists of 8 farsakh, shortens his prayers, and learns later that it was not 8 farsakh, he should offer four units of prayers, and if the time prescribed for the prayers has passed, he should perform its qaza. 1286.

It a person is sure that his journey is not of 8 farsakh or doubts whether or not it is of 8 farsakh and if he realizes on the way that the distance of his journey has been 8 farsakh, he should offer shortened prayers, though a part of the journey still remains, and it he has offered complete prayers, he should offer it again in the shortened form. 1287.

If a person comes and goes 8 number of times between two places the distance of which is less than 4 farsakh he should offer complete prayers, though the total distance covered by him may be 8 farsakh. 1288.