The office of His Eminence Ayatollah ُSayyid Ali Sistani announced a statement in order to answer a question about the determination or the closest likelihood of the Night of Qadr.
Question
What is his eminence’s opinion on the determination or the nearest likelihood of the Night of Qadr?
Answer
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
The closest probability is one of the two nights of the 21st night and the 23rd night in Ramadan and also probably the 19th night. It is recommended that devout believers do the special practices of these three Nights of Qadr and stay up the night.
I am a worker and I don’t usually travelled to work but in this ramamdan I got a contract out side my home town to a certain place which I cannot pray full Salaat unless kasir and the contract is not up full of the month. So in this if I went with fasting, is my fasting okay?
Salaam Alaykum
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, should fast while travelling.