Prayer: What are the duties of bus drivers and passengers when prayer time comes but the bus doesn’t stop?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Prayer: What are the duties of bus drivers and passengers when prayer time comes but the bus doesn’t stop?
English:
Question #723:
Drivers of some passenger buses that travel between cities do not care about their passengers’ prayers. So they do not stop the bus at the passengers’ request so that they may perform prayers. That may cause the passengers’ prayers become qaḍā’. What is the duty of bus drivers in this respect, and what is the passengers’ duty concerning their prayers in such a situation?
Answer #723:
If the passengers fear the lapse of a prayer’s time, it will be obligatory for them to ask the driver to stop the bus at a place appropriate for praying, and it will be obligatory for the driver to accept their request. If he refuses to stop the bus for an acceptable reason, or no reason, the passengers, if they fear the lapse of the prayer’s time, should perform the prayer on the bus while it is moving, and observe qiblah, standing position, rukū‘ and prostration as much as possible.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer