Traveling to the lands of the disbelievers to attend scientific conferences
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to travel to the lands of the disbelievers to attend scientific conferences, knowing that there will be free mixing of men and women, but without me mixing with them, while displaying the religion?
Answer:
This depends on the public benefit. If there is a public benefit in the travel, in that he acquires knowledge of medicine and experience, and he does not commit any of the sins, he does not mix with women in a way that arouses desire, the women are separate and the men are separate, there is nothing wrong with that, provided he holds fast to the religion, and that the travel is only to the extent of the need, and then he returns.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to travel to the lands of the disbelievers to attend scientific conferences, knowing that there will be free mixing of men and women, but without me mixing with them, while displaying the religion?
Answer:
This depends on the public benefit. If there is a public benefit in the travel, in that he acquires knowledge of medicine and experience, and he does not commit any of the sins, he does not mix with women in a way that arouses desire, the women are separate and the men are separate, there is nothing wrong with that, provided he holds fast to the religion, and that the travel is only to the extent of the need, and then he returns.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 29 — youtube.com (1:06:19)
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