and I heard our teacher, Imam ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Bāz, may Allah have mercy on him, say (1): “The soundest approach is that whatever people customarily regard as a journey inherits the rulings of travel: shortening and combining the prayers, permission to break the fast, and the allowance to wipe over the footwear for three days, for a traveler needs provisions and supplies. In other words, whatever is deemed travel is treated as travel, and whatever is not, is not. Still, if a Muslim adopts the view of the majority—namely, that a journey is one of two full days of purposeful travel (2), whereas a single barid or three farsakhs do not amount to travel in their judgment—then doing so is commendable as a precaution, lest people grow lax and start shortening the prayer where they should not, given the widespread ignorance and limited insight, especially now that automobiles are available; this could even lead someone to break the fast on the very outskirts of town. Those two days equal roughly 70 kilometers.”