Analysis of the Jurisprudential Nature of Traveler’s Prayer (Arabic: صلاه المسافر Ṣalāt al-Musafir)

The traveler’s prayer is one of the obligatory duties, which is recited in the form of shortening (Shortened, Qaṣr Prayer, two Rak'ats, Arabic: صلاه القصر) with the necessary conditions. There are two important points about prayer shortening (Taqṣīr aṣ-ṣalāh) of the traveler. According to one view, the shortened prayer is permissible during travel. For reasons such as the superiority of the full prayer (Tamām); the optional (alternative) obligation between Qaṣr and full prayers; shortened in the quality of prayer. This view for some reasons is flawed; because the acceptance of this view requires arbitrary interpretation (An interpretation by opinion, Eisegesis). But another view about traveler’s prayer (Arabic: صلاه المسافر Ṣalāt al-Musafir), unanimously knows the view of shortened (Qaṣr) prayer in a travel as a strong and most potent evidence, and as a result, they have found the evidence of the obligatory of the shortening (Qaṣr) of the as a persuasive evidence. The present study based on the analytical and descriptive method, examines the nature of traveler prayer by jurisprudential arguments, the opinions of jurists and fundamentalists (theoretician in law), and the obvious features of the shortening of prayer and has come to the conclusion that the ruling on the traveler’s prayer is in the form of departure, and the obligation to say (offering prayers) prayers shortly even in today’s travels that travel is very easy, is a definite and a religious obligation.