Firstly, Ramadhaan Mubarak to you and your families.
My fiance goes on business trips to different states in the US. What is the whole concept of fasting while traveling? or is there a distance while going on a trip where he should NOT fast? Masha’Allah he is very religious, prays 5 times a day, reads all taraveeh’s and fasts all 30 days. He is persistant on keeping roza but i told him as a musafir you can let go of a roza and make it up at the end and not get Gunaah. Can someone tell me some more about this?
A traveller for whom it is obligatory to shorten a four Rak’ats prayers to two Rak’ats, should not fast. However, a traveller who offers full prayers, like, a person who is a traveller by profession or who goes on a journey for a haraam purpose, should fast while travelling.
If a person does not know that the fast of a traveller is invalid and observes fast while journeying, and learns about the rule during the day, his fast becomes void, but if he does not learn about the rule till Maghrib, his fast is valid.
If a person forgets that he is a traveller or forgets that the fast of a traveller is void, and observes fast while journeying, is fast is invalid.
If a fasting person travels after Zuhr, he should, as a precaution, complete his fast. If he travels before Zuhr and had an intention from the previous night to do so, he cannot fast on that day. As a precaution, he cannot fast on that day even if he had no intention to travel from the previous night. In both the cases, he cannot break the fast till he has reached the limit of Tarakkhus. If he does, he will be liable to give Kaffarah.
If a traveller in the month of Ramadhan, regardless of whether he was travelling before Fajr, or was fasting and then undertook the journey, reaches his hometown before Zuhr or a place where he intends to stay for ten days, and if has not committed an act which invalidates a fast, he should fast on that day. But if he has committed such an act, it is not obligatory on him to fast on that day.
If a traveller reaches his hometown after Zuhr, or a place where he intends to stay for ten days, he cannot fast on that day.