Is there a clarification regarding permissible and impermissible travel for leisure?
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Is there a clarification regarding permissible and impermissible travel for leisure? And is there a difference?
The Shaykh:
The permissible one is that in which there is no disobedience, and the impermissible one is that in which there is disobedience. Yes.
The questioner:
And is travel for leisure to the lands of the disbelievers permissible?
The Shaykh:
No, the lands of the disbelievers contain evil, fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), and there is what is not permissible. Traveling to the lands of the disbelievers is not permissible except in exceptional circumstances, such as a patient seeking treatment, or traveling to deliver goods or contract with companies for trade, in which case there is no harm. Or traveling to visit relatives, or for da'wah (calling others to Islam), all of this is permissible. Or to learn what is not found except with them, such as learning a craft or engineering; all of this is permissible to the extent of need. As for traveling merely for leisure, this is not permissible, and it is travel involving disobedience. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Is there a clarification regarding permissible and impermissible travel for leisure? And is there a difference?
The Shaykh:
The permissible one is that in which there is no disobedience, and the impermissible one is that in which there is disobedience. Yes.
The questioner:
And is travel for leisure to the lands of the disbelievers permissible?
The Shaykh:
No, the lands of the disbelievers contain evil, fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), and there is what is not permissible. Traveling to the lands of the disbelievers is not permissible except in exceptional circumstances, such as a patient seeking treatment, or traveling to deliver goods or contract with companies for trade, in which case there is no harm. Or traveling to visit relatives, or for da'wah (calling others to Islam), all of this is permissible. Or to learn what is not found except with them, such as learning a craft or engineering; all of this is permissible to the extent of need. As for traveling merely for leisure, this is not permissible, and it is travel involving disobedience. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [776 -3022] هل من توضيحٍ لسفر النزهة المباح، وغير المباح؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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