Musafir
Travellers
(16) Untuk seorang musafir dibenarkan berbuka puasa, syarat-syarat tertentu mesti dipenuhi. Perjalanannya hendaklah panjang, atau sekurang-kurangnya dikenali sebagai musafir (walaupun terdapat perbezaan pendapat yang masyhur di kalangan para ulama dalam perkara ini), dan hendaklah melampaui bandar serta kawasan pinggirannya. (Majoriti ulama berpendapat bahawa dia tidak boleh berbuka puasa sebelum dia melepasi sempadan bandar. Mereka berkata bahawa sesuatu perjalanan belum benar-benar bermula sehingga seseorang itu melepasi sempadan bandar, dan orang yang masih berada dalam bandar dianggap "bermukim" dan "hadir". Allah berfirman (terjemahan maknanya): "... Maka sesiapa dalam kalangan kamu yang menyaksikan (anak bulan pada malam pertama) bulan (Ramadan, iaitu hadir di rumahnya), maka hendaklah dia berpuasa dalam bulan itu..." [al-Baqarah 2:185]. Dia tidak dikira sebagai musafir selagi dia belum meninggalkan bandar; jika dia masih berada dalam bandar, dia dianggap sebagai orang yang bermukim, maka dia tidak dibenarkan memendekkan solatnya). Perjalanannya juga hendaklah bukan perjalanan untuk tujuan maksiat (menurut majoriti ulama), atau untuk tujuan mengelak daripada berpuasa.
(16) For a traveller to be allowed to break his fast, certain conditions must be met. His journey should be lengthy, or else be known as travelling (although there is a well-known difference of opinion among the scholars on this matter), and should go beyond the city and its suburbs. (The majority of scholars say that he should not break his fast before he passes the city limits. They say that a journey has not really begun until a person passes the city limits, and a person who is still in the city is “settled” and “present”. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “… So whoever of you sights (the crescent on the first night of) the month (of Ramadaan, i.e., is present at his home), he must observes sawm (fasts) that month…” [al-Baqarah 2:185]. He is not counted as a traveller until he has left the city; if he is still within the city, he is regarded as one who is settled, so he is not permitted to shorten his prayers). His journey should also not be a journey for sinful purposes (according to the majority of scholars), or for the purpose of trying to get out of having to fast.