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Buses to reach Makkah/Madinah do not stop for salaat

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For people from different parts of Saudi Arabia, they take the Tour/Travel companies buses to reach Makkah/Madinah to perform Omrah/Ziyarah. All these ritiuals are Nafl. The point to mention here is that most of these bus drivers do not halt the buses for the prayers on their prescribed timings. For example, they do not stop for Maghrib prayer at its prescribed time and stop the bus at Isha prayer time and ask the passengers to join both maghrib and isha prayers at this time. Is it allowed and is it not construed as neglecting the salat (that to an obligatory one for the sake of a nafl Omrah). The buses can be made to stop at the prescribed times of the prayers and there are lot of mosques at short distances throughout the journey. Some people argue that it is allowed to do so. Please explain! (Saudi Arabia)
Combining prayers even when a person is traveling is also not permissible. Like it is not permissible to combined prayers when a person is a resident. Therefore, it is important that those people who are going for umrah should pray all the prayers on their time. If the people are traveling in a bus vehicle they should try to stop the driver. So they can pray, if the driver does not stop then people can pray, while sitting in the bus. And people should make preparations before getting onto the bus in case the prayer time comes they should be ready to pray. If nothing goes according to one’s plane then one should make up the prayer later. But one should not combine the prayers and if there is the fear that one would have to forego one’s prayers, then people should refrain from making non-obligatory umras.

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