Prayer: If total weekly travel exceeds 8 farsakhs through multiple short trips, should prayers be shortened?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Prayer: If total weekly travel exceeds 8 farsakhs through multiple short trips, should prayers be shortened?
English:
Question #661:
A person travels from the place where he lives to another place within the shar‘ī distance and several times a week goes from the second place to other places so that the total distance exceeds eight shar‘ī farsakhs, what is his duty?
Answer #661:
If he does not intend to travel the shar‘ī distance when leaving his home, and the distance between his first destination and the subsequent ones is not equal to the shar‘ī distance, the traveler’s rule would not apply to him.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer