What is the ruling on women traveling to foreign countries with their husbands and children?
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Question:
This questioner says: What is the ruling on traveling to foreign countries with the husband and children, knowing that I am committed to hijab without covering the face?
Answer:
Traveling with the husband and children is permissible if the husband needs to travel for treatment, or if you need it, or if one of the children needs treatment, and this requires traveling for the sake of treatment, or for study, if the husband needs to study and this study is not available except abroad, he travels for it, or for trade, if obtaining it depends on traveling to contract with companies or factories or traders in these matters, or what is more important, which is traveling for the sake of calling to Allah, if he is among the scholars and travels for the sake of calling to Allah, calling to Islam. These are matters for which traveling is either permissible or prescribed, such as calling to Allah. So there is no harm in you accompanying him. However, hijab is obligatory upon you here and abroad. That is, you are a Muslim woman, a Muslim woman in any place. As long as hijab is obligatory upon you in this country, it is obligatory upon you in the farthest and nearest parts of the earth. A woman adheres to the rulings of the religion in any place. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1987Hasan (Darussalam) So it is obligatory upon you to cover your face as you cover it here, because the ruling is one. So you cover your face, and there is no hardship in this. Rather, this is an honor for you. You represent Islam correctly by covering, modesty, and chastity. So we do not compromise on any of the rulings of our religion for the sake of pleasing the disbelievers or out of fear of the disbelievers. Yes, they do not harm her, so that they do not subject her to anything. But if it happens that they harm her or subject her to something, the Muslim does not compromise on his religion. So if traveling depends on abandoning hijab, do not travel.
Do not travel if it depends on abandoning hijab. Although it does not depend on that, and praise be to Allah, no one is prevented from hijab, nor from prayer, nor from it. So traveling for these purposes while adhering to the rulings of the religion is permissible.
This questioner says: What is the ruling on traveling to foreign countries with the husband and children, knowing that I am committed to hijab without covering the face?
Answer:
Traveling with the husband and children is permissible if the husband needs to travel for treatment, or if you need it, or if one of the children needs treatment, and this requires traveling for the sake of treatment, or for study, if the husband needs to study and this study is not available except abroad, he travels for it, or for trade, if obtaining it depends on traveling to contract with companies or factories or traders in these matters, or what is more important, which is traveling for the sake of calling to Allah, if he is among the scholars and travels for the sake of calling to Allah, calling to Islam. These are matters for which traveling is either permissible or prescribed, such as calling to Allah. So there is no harm in you accompanying him. However, hijab is obligatory upon you here and abroad. That is, you are a Muslim woman, a Muslim woman in any place. As long as hijab is obligatory upon you in this country, it is obligatory upon you in the farthest and nearest parts of the earth. A woman adheres to the rulings of the religion in any place. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Have Taqwa of Allah wherever you are
اتق الله حيثما كنتDo not travel if it depends on abandoning hijab. Although it does not depend on that, and praise be to Allah, no one is prevented from hijab, nor from prayer, nor from it. So traveling for these purposes while adhering to the rulings of the religion is permissible.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم سفر النساء إلى بلاد الخارج مع الزوج والأولاد؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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