Traveling to Learn a Language and Living with a Non-Muslim Family
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Question:
Perhaps the question is good, Shaykh, regarding traveling for the purpose of learning a foreign language first, and then also the issue of living with a non-Muslim family?
Answer:
Learning a foreign language: if it is possible for him to learn it here without traveling, and if it is not possible to learn it here, then there is no harm in him traveling to learn it. However, living with a family is not permissible, because many harms have resulted from this, and it is not necessary that he can only learn the language if he lives with a family. If he does not live with a family, it is not permissible for him to live with a family of disbelievers with their morals, their beliefs, and their licentiousness. Many harms have occurred to those who lived with families, and they mention scandals resulting from that. He may drink intoxicants with them, he may eat pork with them, and his character may be corrupted, because they do not have a preservation of morals. As long as the woman is not married and no marriage contract has been concluded for her, there is no objection in her companying whomever she wishes, and they have no objection regarding the issue of morals and the corruption of morals and honor. They do not refrain, in their claim, from unlawful sexual intercourse except if the woman is married, in which case she refrains from unlawful sexual intercourse.
As for the man, he persists in unlawful sexual intercourse even if he is married; he takes companions and concubines even if he is married. The Muslim does not live with a family that is corrupt in its morals and defective in its religion, because it affects him, and learning the language does not permit him to commit this forbidden act and these harms. And because he is able to learn the language without living with a family. Yes.
Perhaps the question is good, Shaykh, regarding traveling for the purpose of learning a foreign language first, and then also the issue of living with a non-Muslim family?
Answer:
Learning a foreign language: if it is possible for him to learn it here without traveling, and if it is not possible to learn it here, then there is no harm in him traveling to learn it. However, living with a family is not permissible, because many harms have resulted from this, and it is not necessary that he can only learn the language if he lives with a family. If he does not live with a family, it is not permissible for him to live with a family of disbelievers with their morals, their beliefs, and their licentiousness. Many harms have occurred to those who lived with families, and they mention scandals resulting from that. He may drink intoxicants with them, he may eat pork with them, and his character may be corrupted, because they do not have a preservation of morals. As long as the woman is not married and no marriage contract has been concluded for her, there is no objection in her companying whomever she wishes, and they have no objection regarding the issue of morals and the corruption of morals and honor. They do not refrain, in their claim, from unlawful sexual intercourse except if the woman is married, in which case she refrains from unlawful sexual intercourse.
As for the man, he persists in unlawful sexual intercourse even if he is married; he takes companions and concubines even if he is married. The Muslim does not live with a family that is corrupt in its morals and defective in its religion, because it affects him, and learning the language does not permit him to commit this forbidden act and these harms. And because he is able to learn the language without living with a family. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-37-قضايا فقهية - 01|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (38:49)
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