Women Going to Memorize the Qur'an and Learn Tajwid Without a Mahram
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A group of women are going to a town to memorize the Noble Qur'an, study the science of tajwid, and obtain an ijazah in it. This town is forty kilometers away from them, so they go without a mahram, in fact, in taxis. He asks: What is the ruling on this action, and does it count as travel?
The Shaykh:
This is not travel. But why does a woman leave her house? She does not leave her house to memorize the Qur'an; she memorizes the Qur'an in her house. She brings a teacher, or they gather in one of their houses and a teacher comes to them. There is no need for them to travel a distance for the purpose of memorizing the Qur'an and tajwid. This is not necessary. Tajwid is not necessary.
The questioner:
Honorable.
The Shaykh:
So the rest is not necessary. She reads from the mushaf without memorizing it, and there is no contradiction in that.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A group of women are going to a town to memorize the Noble Qur'an, study the science of tajwid, and obtain an ijazah in it. This town is forty kilometers away from them, so they go without a mahram, in fact, in taxis. He asks: What is the ruling on this action, and does it count as travel?
The Shaykh:
This is not travel. But why does a woman leave her house? She does not leave her house to memorize the Qur'an; she memorizes the Qur'an in her house. She brings a teacher, or they gather in one of their houses and a teacher comes to them. There is no need for them to travel a distance for the purpose of memorizing the Qur'an and tajwid. This is not necessary. Tajwid is not necessary.
The questioner:
Honorable.
The Shaykh:
So the rest is not necessary. She reads from the mushaf without memorizing it, and there is no contradiction in that.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب الثاني في ذكر حقيقة مرض القلب — islamhouse.com (1:07:39)
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