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We are going for Umrah and landing in Madinah, then taking a train to Makkah. Can we wear the Ihrām from the hotel in Madinah (according to Sistani's rulings)?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Ehraam must be started from a Meeqaat like Masjid al Shajarah or Johfah or Qarn al-Manaazil etc. Ehraam can not start from the hotel which is not a Meeqaat. Wearing the Ehraam does not mean starting the state of Ehraam. You can wear the Ehraam in the hotel then go to the Meeqat to start you Ehraam state by Intention Niyyah of the Ehraam and reciting the Takbiyah which is :لبَّيكَداللهمَّ لبَّيك لبَّيك لا شَريكَ  لَكَ لَبَّيك إنَّ الحمدَ والنعمةَ لَكَ والمُلك، لا شريكَ لَكَ لَبَّيك  Labbaykallahumma Labbayk, Labbayka Laa Shareeka Laka Labbayk, Innal Hamda Wanni’mata Laka Walmulk, Laa Shareeka Laka Labbayk.

Wassalam.
We arrive in Makkah 1 day before Ramadan and will stay for 4 days. Can we pray full salah and fast? We will wear ihram at masjid al shajarah and take the train at night. How should men travel whilst avoiding shelter and looking after the family?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'āla

You are travelling, and will be there for less than 10 days, so you cannot fast or pray full. Only when you are in the Holy Haram, you can pray full.

Men should do the ihram evening time, and catch the train after that, so it is at night.

And Allah knows best
What is your view on the hypothesis that places like Mecca, Jerusalem and Karbala were originally located in Antarctica and the current places were created only 800 years ago after the major occultation of the Mahdi?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

This hypothesis can't be true as the history of the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) goes back to more than 1447 years. Even the history of the Arabia peninsula and Karbala and Jerusalem goes back to thousands of years.

Wassalam.
Is it permissible to wear Ihram from Masjid al-Shajara in Medina and travel by closed vehicles to Mecca after Isha prayer, if I am following the taqlid of Ayatollah Khoei?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

According to the verdict of Ayatullah Sistani, it is not permissible for man during Ihraam to travel in a covered vehicle. If he had no choice but to do that, he has to pay Kaffara which is slaughtering a sheep or a goat and distributing it among poor believers.

Wassalam.