How to calculate safr distance
Q: From where to where will you start and end the calculation? I live in Durban?
Safar
Making the intention of safr when travelling to a certain town assuming it to be safr distance
Q: If a person intended to travel to a certain town and thinking it to be safr he makes intention of safr. However when he reaches there he notices that the distance is less than safr. Will he still be a musaafir?
Travelling safr distance without the intention of safr
Q: If a person intended to travel from his hometown to a specific town. However he did not make intention of safr when he left. When he arrives at this town he notices that he had exceeded the safr distance. Would he be a musaafir?
Sunnat Salaah when one is on safr
Q: When one is travelling (i.e. a Musaafir), I understand that the Farz of Zuhr, Asr and Esha is reduced to 2 Rakaats. Does one have concession to omit the Sunnat Rakaats, meaning that for Zuhr does one read 4 Sunnat, 2 Farz, 2 Sunnat or should one just read 2 Farz of Zuhr?
Working in Ladysmith, living in PMB and staying in Durban in the weekends
Q: I live in PMB. I am currently on audit at Laysmith, and spend Monday to Friday in Ladysmith. I do not go home (PMB) during weekends, but go to a house in Durban. I intend continuing like this for the next month or two. The distance from my home to the Durban house is about 80KM, but from boundary to boundary would probably be less than 77Km. From PMB to Ladysmith is about 170KM.
During the weekends, whilst returning from Ladysmith, I bypass my home in PMB. I sometimes stop here temporarily; to collect items, visit my parents, drop off stuff etc, or even for Namaaz; and then proceed to Durban.
Am I a Musafir in:
- Durban,
- Ladysmith, and
- Pietermaritzburg.
Missing Salaah on a journey due to requiring ghusal
Q: A traveler who does not have ghusal can he miss his salaah?
Travelling 77km or more without an intention at the commencment of the journey
Q: A person who travels over 77km and does not have the intention at the start of the journey or it was not on his mind, etc. Is he still a musafir?
Maximum amount of days that a Shaafi person can be a musaafir
Q: What is the maximum amount of days that a shaafi person can be a musaafir and read qasr salaah?
Holiday flat in Portugal
Q: I live in Morocco but i own a holiday flat in Portugal which stays empty most of the year, when I go there am i musaafir?
Joining Salaah during safr
Q: When I travel I combine my namazes, zuhr and asr and maghrib and Esha. If I don't then I will be lazy to even read both the namazes on its time in the 1st place, so isn't this better for me? I know its another mazhab but whats wrong with that?