Can a traveler offer prayer in a train in motion or not?
Answer:
"Farz", "Waajib" and Sunnat of Fajrcan not be offered in a train in motion, as facing the Qiblah and place (on which prayer is offered) must also be one are the prerequisites of obligatory prayers. These two conditions are not possible to be met in a train in motion. However, Nafl and other prayers can be offered.
Traveler should perform ablution in advance and offer these prayers as soon as the train stops at any station and in case he apprehends that the stipulated time of prayer will run out then he should offer prayer in train anyhow and repeat it later at the first available time, for, repetition of the prayer in which any "Rukn" or precondition is left out is must. The same rule also applies to plane. It is wrong to consider train like plane and boat to this effect because boat will not stand on or touch the earth even though stopped on the water whereas the train will.
Prayer in boat will be in order only when it is in the deep of river and if it is ashore and traveler can go to the land then prayer will not be in order in boat.
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