- Travelling means having reached outside the boundaries of the city,
town or village, on your way to a journey which should not be of less
than 28 miles. On a day one has the intention of travelling, one will
not break the fast while still at home or in the city. The fast will
be broken once you cross the boundary of your hometown.
- At any place where you pray Qasr, you will not fast. If you have
travelled to a place where your stay will be less than 10 days, you
will pray Qasr for the prayers of 4 rakaats, and you will not fast.
You will give Qaza later.
- The people whose job is that of travelling, e.g. pilot, crew, drivers,
etc or one who undertakes a journey for a sinful purpose, must fast
even while they are travelling, and their prayer will not be Qasr,
either.
- To travel for the sole purpose of not fasting is allowed, but it
is better if you do not do that.
- If you travel from the place where you live AFTER the time of ZOHR,
you will complete the fast. However, if you travel BEFORE the time
of ZOHR, you will not fast.
- The day you arrive back from your trip, if you reach the boundary
of your hometown BEFORE the time of ZOHR, and you have not done anything
that will break your fast, then you must fast on that day. However,
if you reach the boundary of your hometown AFTER the time of ZOHR
you will not fast and give Qaza after Ramadhan.
- If a person makes a vow for a Sunnat fast on a particular day and
he finds that he has to travel on that day, then, because he had specified
the day he was going to keep the Sunnat fast, he can fast while journeying;
the same applies to a person who makes a vow to keep a Sunnat fast
on a particular day regardless of whether he is going to travel on
that day or not. However, if a person makes a vow to fast but does
not specify the day then he cannot fast if he is going to travel.
- A traveller can observe a Sunnat fast in Medina on three days if
his main purpose is for praying for the fulfilment of his needs, and
it is better that those three days are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
- If a person does not know that a traveller cannot fast and finds
out during the fast, his fast becomes void; however, if he does not
find out about it until sunset, his fast is valid.
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