Prayer: What’s the prayer rule if a traveler detours 1 farsakh before continuing a 3 farsakh trip?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Prayer: What’s the prayer rule if a traveler detours 1 farsakh before continuing a 3 farsakh trip?
English:
Question #659:
A traveler intends to travel to a place at three shar‘ī farsakhs, but his intention, at the beginning, is to travel a shar‘ī farsakh along a side road to accomplish some business and then return to the main road to continue his journey. What rule applies to the prayers and fasting of this traveler?
Answer #659:
The traveler’s rule applies to him. It is sufficient, in order to complete the shar‘ī distance, to add what he covered [along the side road] from the time he departed the main road to the time he returned to it.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer