The ruling on traveling in Ramadan and on Friday for recreation
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Question:
I say: Some people choose the days of the seasons, such as the month of Ramadan and Fridays, for recreation and trips. Honorable Shaykh, perhaps you have some guidance on that?
Answer:
Permissible travel is allowed in Ramadan and on Friday and other days. Permissible travel. Yes. Travel that is not travel for sin is allowed in Ramadan and in other times for recreation or for trade or for something else. As for forbidden travel, such as travel for sin, it does not permit taking the dispensation of breaking the fast in Ramadan or of leaving the Friday prayer. But in the first case, if it is permissible travel, it is allowed in Ramadan and on Friday, but leaving it is better. Good. For a person to leave travel that has no dire necessity or pressing need, he leaves it so that he has the time to fast, to perform the late-night voluntary prayer, to pray the tarawih with the Muslims, and to recite the Qur'an. This is better for him, without doubt. This is an opportunity that will be lost on him in travel, and it is a precious opportunity in his life that may not come again. Likewise, Friday is a great day, and the Friday prayer has great reward and great virtue. So for him to go out for recreation or for something else or for other purposes, for him to stay on Friday and pray with the Muslims is better for him, even if the travel is permissible at the beginning of the day. But if the mu'adhdhin calls for the Friday prayer, which is the call before the imam sits on the pulpit, it is not permissible to travel at that time. Rather, it is obligatory for him to pray the Friday prayer.
His saying, the Exalted:[Al-Jumu'ah 62:9] So it is not permissible for him to start the travel at this moment. The mu'adhdhin is calling and the imam is sitting on the side, it is obligatory for him to respond and to pray the Friday prayer, then travel after that. As for travel before that, at the beginning of the day, it is permissible with dislike if he has no pressing need; it is permissible with dislike. Yes.
I say: Some people choose the days of the seasons, such as the month of Ramadan and Fridays, for recreation and trips. Honorable Shaykh, perhaps you have some guidance on that?
Answer:
Permissible travel is allowed in Ramadan and on Friday and other days. Permissible travel. Yes. Travel that is not travel for sin is allowed in Ramadan and in other times for recreation or for trade or for something else. As for forbidden travel, such as travel for sin, it does not permit taking the dispensation of breaking the fast in Ramadan or of leaving the Friday prayer. But in the first case, if it is permissible travel, it is allowed in Ramadan and on Friday, but leaving it is better. Good. For a person to leave travel that has no dire necessity or pressing need, he leaves it so that he has the time to fast, to perform the late-night voluntary prayer, to pray the tarawih with the Muslims, and to recite the Qur'an. This is better for him, without doubt. This is an opportunity that will be lost on him in travel, and it is a precious opportunity in his life that may not come again. Likewise, Friday is a great day, and the Friday prayer has great reward and great virtue. So for him to go out for recreation or for something else or for other purposes, for him to stay on Friday and pray with the Muslims is better for him, even if the travel is permissible at the beginning of the day. But if the mu'adhdhin calls for the Friday prayer, which is the call before the imam sits on the pulpit, it is not permissible to travel at that time. Rather, it is obligatory for him to pray the Friday prayer.
His saying, the Exalted:
O you who have believed, when [the adhan] is called for the prayer on the day of Jumu'ah [Friday], then proceed to the remembrance of Allah and leave trade.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذَا نُودِيَ لِلصَّلَاةِ مِن يَوْمِ الْجُمُعَةِ فَاسْعَوْا إِلَىٰ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَذَرُوا الْبَيْعَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6019- حكم السفر في رمضان ويوم الجمعة للتنزه - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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