Safar

Q: My question is related to Salaah and flying by air.

Sometime ago we flew from Australia to Canada. We set out at around 7.00 am on Tuesday, and we reached at around 7.15 am Tuesday, on the same date. The flight was 17 hours, and in this time we didn't read any Salaah. In fact, the next Salaah we read was Dhuhr almost 24 hours later. Is this correct?

However, when we were returning to Australia, we lost a day, so basically a whole day's worth of Salaah became qadha. We jumped a whole day, or we lost a whole day, when we were crossing the international date line. How does this work? How do we calculate Salaah in these situations? Were we supposed to read any Salaah on the way to Canada keeping in mind the Hadith about after Dajjaal comes one day will be equal to a year, and so forth. Hence Salaah would have been calculated according to its normal time, as Nabi Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Salam had advised his Sahaabah? 

Q: Is it permissable to travel with your mother's mahram whilst your mother is present? I don't have a mahram who can take me to go and see my sick nani. So is it permissable if I travel with my mother and my brother in law and his wife (which is my sister)? Pardah will be observed as well.

Q: My child went to live in England forever to study and work. If he returns home, would he be musaafir? The city where he lived before is always his watne Aslî or is England now his watn Asli?

Q: Should I perform my sunnat muakkadah and wajib with qasr salaah while I am travelling or not?

Q: I, my younger sister, mother, my elder sister and her husband have to travel from India to Saudi Arabia.

Can I and my sister travel with my elder sister's husband as our mahram?

Q: If one is studying in a town that is more than 77kms away from his home town, stays there from Sunday till the following Friday, then returns home on Friday and goes back on Sunday, and continues in this manner throughout the course of the semester, should he perform qasar Salaah or full Salaah?

Q: I live in the university hostel which is 150km away from my home. I go home almost every weekend and return on Monday to the hostel, that means I travel 4 times in a month. So should I pray normal or qasr namaz in the hostel?

Q: I lived in South africa for many years, then for some reason I moved to another country with my whole family. However, I still have my house in South Africa and I have the intention to come back and live in this house after a few years.

My question is that if I come to my house in South Africa for 3 days just to see if everything is alright, will I be a musaafir or not?

Q: I want to know should we calculate our stay at a particular destination once we enter the city or reach our hotel. 

Q: How can I calculate 15 days during a journey in order to know whether I need to perform qasar Salaah or full salaah. Suppose I reach a destination on 1st Dec 05:30 pm and plan to stay till 15th Dec 05:30 am.

Do I need to to take into account till 15th Dec 5:30 pm (360 hrs) as it is less than 360 I should offer Qasr even though it is 15th day ?