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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
Is a silent vow still valid? I intended to fast on a specific Friday without stating it verbally. Should I observe the fast on that chosen Friday, or wait until after the event?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

If you made an intention to fast on a specific day as a vow or Nathr نذر then you must fast on that specific day even if you did not state it verbally. If your intention was to fast after the event, then you are not bound to fast but after the event. If your intention was for fast anyway with out a condition, then you can fast any time before or after the event.

Wassalam.
If I was unaware of Ghusul al-Janabah due to my young age and learned about it years later, do I have to repeat all my prayers and redo every year of Ramdan fasting?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

If you could ask about your religious responsibilities and rules but you ignored to learn,you then need to repeat every Prayer and fasting done with out proper purity from Janabah.
If you had no way at all to ask or learn your religious responsibilities, then you do not need to repeat.

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Wassalam.
While observing Kaffarah fasting for 60 days, if a person has plans that prevent them from fasting, such as traveling before Zuhr, are these valid excuses to skip certain days? Will this impact the completion of their Kaffarah?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

If he traveled during the fasting of sixty days of Kaffara, he must fast the days of the traveling immediately after the travel and continue fasting the remains days of the sixty. If he traveled  and did not compensate the days of the travel immediately and made a deliberate gap, he will then  need to restart the Kaffara fast again.

Wassalam.