Prayer: When does a driver’s “first journey” end according to Imam Khomeini’s risālah?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Prayer: When does a driver’s “first journey” end according to Imam Khomeini’s risālah?

English:

Question #647:

It is stated in the risālah of Imam Khomeini (q.), in the chapter on the traveler’s prayer, the seventh condition, “It is obligatory for the driver, except during his first journey, to perform prayer in full. During the first journey, his prayer is shortened even if it takes long.” Does the first journey mean the beginning of travel from the watan till returning to it or it ends when one reaches his destination?

Answer #647:

If the act of going to the place of work and returning back from it is considered as one trip in the common view — e.g. the driver who has just a single destination and, for example, wants to take a load to a city and return to his hometown, to go and to return altogether is considered as the 1st trip. However, in case the common view does not consider them as one trip — like the driver who travels for transporting goods to a place and departs from there to transport travelers or goods to another destination, or if his intention was so from the beginning and then returns to his watan — the first trip ends at the first destination.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer