Miscellaneous Issues.

1378. A traveler can offer full or shortened prayers in the entire cities of Mecca, Madina, and Mosque of Kufa. There is no distinction between the original buildings and what is added later. He can also offer full or shortened prayers in the Haram of Imam Husayn (AS) or the mosque connected to it.

1379. If a person who knows that he is a traveler, and should offer short prayers, intentionally offers full prayers at places other than the four mentioned above, his prayers are boid. And the same rule applies, if he forgets that a traveler must offer short prayers, and prays full. However, if he prays full forgetting that a traveler should offer Qadha the time has lapsed.

1380. A person who knows that he/she is a traveler, and should offer his/her Namaz in shortened form, if he/she continues to pray in full as usual, the Namaz is void. And also if he forgets the rules of traveler and his trip, if he/she has enough time, must repeat Namaz and if not, as an obligatory precaution, he/she must offer its Qadha.

1381. If a traveler does not know that he should shorten his prayers, and if he offers full prayers, his prayers are in order

1382. If a traveler knew that he should offer shortened prayers, but did not know its details, like, if he did not know that shortened prayers should be offered when the distance of the journey is of 8 Farsakh, he should repeat the prayers if he comes to know the rule within the time of Namaz, and if he does not do that, he will give its Qadha.

1383. If a traveler knows that he should offer shortened prayers, but offers full prayers under the impression that his journey is less than 8 Farsakh, when he learns that his journey has been of 8 Farsakh, he should repeat the prayers as short. And if he learns after the time for the prayers has lapsed, it is necessary for him to offer Qadha, in short form.

1384. If a person forgets that he is a traveler offers complete prayers, and if he remembers this within the time for prayers, he should pray short and if he realizes this after the time is over, it is not obligatory for him to offer Qadha of that prayers, but if he has only forgotten the rule, as an obligatory precaution, he/she must offers its Qadha some other time.

1385. If a person who should offer complete prayers, offers shortened instead, his prayers are void in all circumstances.

1386. If a person begins a prayer of four Rak’ats, and remembers during prayers that he is a traveler, or realizes that his journey is of 8 Farsakh, if he has not gone into the Ruku of the third Rak’at, he should complete Namaz with two Rak’ats. But if he has gone into the Ruku of the third Rak’at, his prayer is void. If he has at his disposal, time even to offer one Rak’at, he should offer short prayers.

1387. If a traveler is not aware of some of the details regarding the prayers durng travel, for example, if he does not know that if he goes on an outward journey of 4 Farsakh, and a return journey of 4 Farsakh, he should offer shortened prayers, and he engages in prayers with the intention of offering foru Rak’ats, if he comes to know the rule before Ruku of the htird Rak’at, he should complete the prayers with two Rak’ats. But if heleanrs of this rule during Ruku, his prayers as a precaution are void. And if he has time at his disposal, even to offer one Rak’at of prayers, he should offer short prayers.

1388. If a traveler who should offer complete prayers, ignorantly makes a Niyyat for shrort and learns about the rule during Namaz, he should complete the Namaz with four Rak’ats, and the recommended precaution is that after the completion of the prayers, he should offer a prayer of four Rak’ats once again.

1389. If before the time of prayers lapses, a traveler who has not offered prayers reaches his hometown, or a place where he intends to stay for ten days, he should offer full prayers. And if a person who is not ona journey, does not offer prayers within its time, and then proceeds on a journey, he should offer the prayers during his journey in shortened form.

1390. If the Zuhr, Asr, or Isha prayers of a traveler, who should have ofered Qasr prayers, becomes Qadha, he should perform its Qadha as short, even if he gives Qadha at his hometown or while he is not traveling. And if a non-traeler makes one of the above three prayers Qadha, he should perform its Qadha as full, even if he may be travelling at the time he offers the Qadha.

1391. It is Mustahab that a traveler should say thirty times after every short prayers: “Subhanallahi walhamdu lillahi wala ilaha illallahu wallahu Akbar.”