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Praying During Pak-USA Flight
Though duration of flight between Pakistan and USA is same on both routes but but departure and arrival time and dates may be same or different. Also Sun sets and rises twice on both routes. When we go from Pakistan to USA, we leave at fajar time and reach USA same day before the zohr time expires. Total duration of flight is usually 16-18 hours But coming back from USA to Pakistan, we start at asar time on one day (say Sunday) we reach Pakistan on Tuesday at fajar time. Thus 9 prayers are missed, whereas duration of travel is same. If we look at sun outside plane window we see sun setting and rising twice. This confuses me. My question is that how many namaz one has to offer on the two routes. While going to USA we see sun setting and rising but as per calendar it’s the same day morning and afternoon. Are we missing whole day namaz by virtue of Sun rising and setting. This problem is more severe if we go by eastern side via Thailand Singapore Japan and USA Once it happened with me that I flew from Singapore on Sunday evening and reached USA same Sunday morning. I had already offered zohr and asar of Sunday. I repeated it again in USA. My question is again the same. Do we have to see our watches to decide which namaz we have to pray irrespective of Sun or follow the Sun rising and setting instead of watches as both don’t corroborate.
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Praying During Pak-USA Flight
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About all such circumstances, the Sharia is silent and there is a need to do ijtihad.
A number of options can be adopted. For example, the time table of prayers of the nearest place (e.g. place of departure) can be adopted until one reaches his place of arrival. Similarly, other courses that seem appropriate to the person can be taken.
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That’s what I think and do. But religious scholars must sit, discuss these situations and come out with some solutions for the ease of common people who don’t understand and can’t interpret Quran and ahadees. I would appreciate if this issue is kept infront of Ghamidi Sahib and seek his expert opinion instead of answered by moderators. I registered several time in monthly “ask ghamidi meeting” but didn’t get a chance to ask the question.
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People who register and attend AskGhamidi Live Event and do not get a chance to ask question, they are sent an email for priority registration which makes sure that every participant is given an equal chance to ask a question to Ghamidi Sahab.
Dr. Irfan Shahzad Sahab (@Irfan76 ) can also give you his scholarly opinion on this matter.
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As Umer Qureshi sahib suggested, one can adopt any option which satisfies one and which is easy for one. In the matter of worship the principle is Ease of the worshipper.
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