Prayer: Can a student plan to stay 10 days in a non-watan city if he knows he’ll travel weekly to a nearby masjid?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Prayer: Can a student plan to stay 10 days in a non-watan city if he knows he’ll travel weekly to a nearby masjid?
English:
Question #654:
A student of Islamic studies lives in a city which is not his watan, and before making the intent of staying for ten days he knows in advance, or decides himself, that he would go every week to a masjid near the city. Can he make the intent of staying for ten days?
1Answer #654:
At the time of deciding to stay for ten days, it does not harm this decision if a person intends to leave this place for another location at less than the shar‘ī distance in a manner which, according to common view, does not contradict staying at this place for ten days, e.g. he wants to travel during these ten days for less than the shar‘ī distance and come back, 2-3 times for half of a day each time.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer
It means that while observing the conditions, they can refer to the fatwā of another mujtahid. But if they do not refer, caution necessitates to say their prayers in both forms, i.e. qasr and complete and in Ramadan, they must fast as a caution and make up for that fast later.