Women Traveling

Al Salamu 3alaykom wa Ra7mat Allah WaBarakatoh ..

I mentioned in the previous post that some Muslims started to think as non-ones nowadays because of the lack of knowledge, if we go back 10 or let's say 15 years ago, we wouldn't see a woman travels by herself. It's not allowed for a woman even if she was adult to go from a country to another without ma7ram, Allah Subhanah wa ta3ala didn't make that HARAM without a reason and wisdom. As it’s known, traveling has dangers even if it is less than before, Arab used to go through countries in the deserts on their camels, the chance to get in trouble was bigger. Anyways, even if we have modern transportation ways nowadays such as planes, it is still not safe for women, it’s even not safe for people in general, men and women but as we know in such situations like this, men have a better control and ability to face the danger in its various types, they might face thieves, dangerous animals if it was by car, or anything may not come to mind.

قال الله سبحانه : وما آتاكم الرسول فخذوه وما نهاكم عنه فانتهوا واتقوا الله إن الله شديد العقاب
قال الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم: لا تسافر المرأة إلا مع ذي محرم

Ma7ram is like adult brother, uncle, father and so.

But as some of Ahel Al 3elm said, there are some cases where it is ok for the woman to travel and one of them is if she went to a country with her ma7ram, and then he died, what can she do? She will have to go back by herself. Subhan Allah, Allah sub7anah wa ta3ala made eveything easy for us.

قال الله سبحانه: وَقَدْ فَصَّلَ لَكُمْ مَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِلا مَا اضْطُرِرْتُمْ إِلَيْهِ

الحمدلله رب العالمين