{"id":4406,"date":"2015-08-16T15:47:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2015-08-16T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T15:47:51","slug":"are-a-muslim-womans-non-muslim-relatives-acceptable-as-mahram-for-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/are-a-muslim-womans-non-muslim-relatives-acceptable-as-mahram-for-traveling.htm","title":{"rendered":"Are a Muslim Woman’s Non-Muslim Relatives Acceptable as Mahram for Traveling?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Name of Allaah, the All Merciful, the Ever Merciful…<\/em><\/p>\n

As reported by Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) and collected in the most authentic Hadeeth sources like al-Bukhaaree and Muslim, the Prophet (may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace) forbade believing women from traveling<\/strong> without a mahram<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

A mahram<\/strong><\/em> is a woman’s close male family member, like her father, grandfather, son,\u00a0grandson, brother,\u00a0or uncle.<\/p>\n

Traveling<\/strong> means to leave one’s\u00a0city,\u00a0by a distance considered\u00a0according to\u00a0local customs to be a journey, not just normal daily movement\u00a0around and outside of the borders of one’s city.<\/p>\n

In the West,\u00a0a woman often\u00a0accepts\u00a0Islaam and thereafter faces\u00a0the difficulty of being the only Muslim in\u00a0her family. She may ask: How am I to implement this hadeeth? Since my immediate male relatives are disqualified from being my walee<\/em><\/strong> (guardian) in a marriage contract, are they also disqualified from being my mahram<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0during a journey?<\/p>\n

This issue was recently addressed by Shaykh Muhammad ‘Umar Baazmool<\/strong> (may Allaah preserve him),\u00a0Professor of Higher Studies at Umm al-Qura University in Makkah. He stated:<\/p>\n

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That which the vast majority of the people of knowledge hold to\u00a0is that it is not a condition for one’s mahram\u00a0to be a Muslim,\u00a0so long as he\u00a0can be trusted around her, not to commit incest or do something impermissible to her.\u00a0Thus, they exempted\u00a0a Majoosee<\/strong> (Zoroastrian), disqualifying him from wilaayah (being a walee for a marriage contract) and from being a mahram for his own Muslim daughter, since his Zoroastrian religion does not prevent him from\u00a0such things.\u00a0Aside from the Zoroastrians, other non-Muslims\u00a0cannot be the walee (in a marriage contract), however they are valid mahrams which\u00a0a Muslim woman can live\u00a0and travel with,\u00a0so long as they fulfill the condition mentioned.<\/p>\n

This condition is even applied to\u00a0a\u00a0Muslim sex offender! He is not to have\u00a0mahram status\u00a0if he cannot be trusted around her. Instead, he is to be treated as someone outside the family, and Allaah is the One who grants success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Arabic source of the shaykh’s answer]<\/a><\/p>\n

And Allaah knows best.<\/p>\n

Written by: Moosaa Richardson\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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