issued for a maximum period of three years). This is a temporary visa and must be renewed after every three years by paying a fixed amount of money. Since this visa is issued for a limited period of time, the intention of staying there permanently [and making it an original hometown] is not valid even though one resides there with his family for one hundred years in this situation. U.A.E. cannot be his original hometown [Waṭan-e-Aṣlī] in this case. Whenever he returns from a journey, he will have to make the intention of staying [for the next fifteen or more days]. For example, a person living in Dubai travels – with a Sunnaĥ-Inspiring Madanī Qāfilaĥ of Dawat-e-Islami with the lovers of Prophet – to Abu Dhabi, the U.A.E capital, which is approximately 150 km away. Upon his return, if he wants to stay in Dubai, he will have to make the intention of staying for the next fifteen days or more otherwise the rulings of a traveller will apply for him. However, if it is apparent from his circumstances and condition that he will be spending fifteen or more days in Dubai, then he has become a resident.

If he does such type of business which involves Shar’ī-travel from time to time and hence is unable to live in Dubai for complete fifteen days and nights, he will remain a traveller and will have to offer shortened Ṣalāĥ although he pays visits to his family in Dubai for several years in this way. Those supplying goods to far-flung areas outside their cities, visiting different