{"id":6778,"date":"2024-07-10T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/shortening-the-prayer\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:21","slug":"shortening-the-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/shortening-the-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortening The Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I want to know in what conditions are we allowed to shorten the Prayer? For how long are we to offer <em>qasar<\/em>  prayer while on journey? In fact presently we live in a hostel. I am  not sure when we should consider stationed ourselves, while at home or  in the hostel? Where should we offer the prayer in short form? Usually  we go home after a couple of weeks. Please explain.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>There is no explicit answer  to this question in Qur\u2019an and Sunnah. Therefore, Muslim jurists have  tried to solve it on the bisis of ijthiad. Hanafi jurists hold that a  person must offer full prayer when he is at home, regardless of the  duration of his stay. Similarly, a person must offer full prayer when he  is staying away from home and intends to spend 15 consecutive days  there. According to this opinion, you should offer full prayer both at  home and during your stay at hostel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Ammar Khan Nasir<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-03<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6778\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to know in what conditions are we allowed to shorten the Prayer? For how long are we to offer <em>qasar<\/em>  prayer while on journey? In fact presently we live in a hostel. I am  not sure when we should consider stationed ourselves, while at home or  in the hostel? Where should we offer the prayer in short form? Usually  we go home after a couple of weeks. 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