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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.
Does seeing ourselves in mirrors or reflections while in Makkah and checking into a hotel invalidate our state of Ihram, even if it is not for the purpose of beautification?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

It does not invalidate our Ihraam, although we must avoid it as much as possible and we should never do it for the purpose of beautification.
In any case, it never invalidates our Ihraam.

Wassalam.