No travel for a woman except with a mahram

The questioner : Hello, yes. Peace be upon you.

The Shaykh : Peace be upon you.

The questioner : If you please, sister of the Shaykh, my brother works in Jizan. My brother is in Jizan. And I mean, I want to go visit him. Is it permissible for me to go from Riyadh to Jeddah, and he will come to pick me up?

The Shaykh : No, he will, if Allah wills, come from Jizan to Riyadh.

The questioner : To Riyadh, yes, and I will travel with him.

The Shaykh : And you all travel together.

The questioner : Okay, and as for me, I work here, and I came with the people I work for. Is this travel, is it haram?

The Shaykh : And how?

The questioner : I mean, I came from Egypt here, and the people say that I am with them.

The Shaykh : Did you come from Egypt?

The questioner : I mean, without a brother or anything, I came with them.

The Shaykh : Without a mahram.

The questioner : Without a mahram, is my travel haram?

The Shaykh : Yes, by Allah, this is haram; it is not permissible.

The questioner : And my aunt is with them, is it haram?

The Shaykh : It is not permissible for a woman to travel except with a mahram, whether for Hajj, for 'Umrah, or for anything else.

The questioner : Okay, I traveled with them also for 'Umrah in Ramadan. Is that okay too? Is it valid?

The Shaykh : Yes, by Allah, it is not valid. May Allah bless you. But you must now repent to Allah the Exalted and Majestic from this, and you must know that there is no travel for a woman except with a mahram, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said in what is authentic from him.

The questioner : Okay, this is in this case, there are people who organize for Hajj and such. Is it not valid for me to go out with them either? Absolutely not.

The Shaykh : Let the mahram who is in Jizan come, and you go to Riyadh.

The questioner : It is haram, may Allah protect us.

The Shaykh : With you, with you.