مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ٢٨٦ - Prayers of a Traveller

profession of the traveller. Hence the cameldrivers, herdsmen. drivers, and sailors etc. should offer full prayers even if they are travelling to transport their household effects. Orders which apply to a person whose profession is travelling also apply to a person who works elsewhere and after reaching there returns to his place on a considerable number of days - e.g. ten or more days during a month. Persons who reside at one place and work at another (in connection with business, education etc.) fall under the same category.
١٣١٦. If a person whose profession is travelling travels for another purpose e.g. for pilgrimage or Hajj he should shorten his prayers. However, if for example, thedriver of an auto- mobile hires out his vehicle for pilgrimage and incidentally performs pilgrimage himself as well, he should offer complete prayers.
١٣١٧. If the profession of a courier (i.e. the person who travels to make the pilgrims reach Makkah) is travelling, he should offer complete prayers, and if hisprofession is not travelling and he travels only during Hajj days for the purpose of couriership, the obligatory precaution is that he should offer shortened as well ascomplete prayer. However, if the period of his journey is short, like air travel during the present time, it is not unlikely that he may be required to offer shortenedprayers.
١٣١٨. If a person, whose profession is that of a courier and who takes pilgrims to Makkah from distant places. spends a consider- able part of the days of a year intravelling, he should offer complete prayers.
١٣١٩. A person, whose profession for a part of the year is travelling e.g. a driver. who hires out his automobile during winter or summer, should offer completeprayers during his journeys, and the recommended precaution is that he should offer shortened prayers as well as complete prayers.
١٣٢٠. If a driver or a hawker, who goes round within an area of