Women travelling with a Mahram

[sinner]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
ASALATU WASALAMU ALAYKA YA RASULLALLAH
Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

Most respected Imam may Allah increase your knowlegde...

Imam saheb I know that you have already answered a question regarding women travelling without a mahram... but still it wasn't clear to me whether travelling with a mahram is farz or sunnah or mustahab for women...

(With travelling I do not mean travelling to make Hajj but 'just' travelling to another country).

May Allah increase our knowlegde...
Jazakallahu gairan

Wassalamu 'alaykoem

[Imam]

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All Praise be to Allah who is the Lord of the Worlds, and may Endless Blessings be showered upon His Most Beloved, and Final Messenger of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa 'aalihi wa Sallam


Jazak'allah for your question. It is not an issue of whether travelling with a mahram is fard, sunnah, or mustahab, although such travelling has been proven from the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam, therefore it would be permissable to say that it would be 'Khilaf-e-Sunnah', if she didnt.


This is derived from the fact that it is not permissible (i.e. it is na Ja'iz) meaning that it is against what would be normal, if a woman did travel without a mahram. Upon this basis, it would be unislamic, and something which Islam does not allow, as a general rule.


It could be referred to as a fard, if the rules of pardah, and niqab were to be applied, thus making it 'more than na-ja'iz, probably haram, which is totally opposite to sunnah, fard etc.


I hope that the opposites of what is permissable, and what is not permissable is seen. If you dont, then here is an example:


Kufr - Iman
Haram - halal/wajib/sunnah
makruh - mustahab
mandub - masnun
mubah - mubah


For something to be sunnah for example, it's opposite can be something which is haram. If a woman travelling on her own was referred to as haram, then a sunnah ruling would be applied, for when women did travel, but with a mahram, which made it permissable. As stated above, verses of the Qur'an do deem it haram for a woman to travel on her own, as is suggested by the verses of the veil, and of the covering up.



May Allah the Almighty give us all the understanding, of how Islam has been made easy for us, and that in the most difficult situations, how it can asisst us for our own benefits, and purposes.



Wallahu A'lamu Biththawaab



M. Waseem Ashrafi