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Traveling and Staying with Male Colleagues: A Working Woman’s Dilemma

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Q: I am an unmarried working woman and my questions are: 1. Can I travel with a non mehram senior colleague through plane from Lahore to Karachi? 2. Can I stay in Karachi for a week with that senior colleague in separate rooms? 3. Can I go to visit Karachi beach with 3 male colleagues after office? Please guide me in both the cases if I have option to avoid this situation and if I dont have an option to avoid. I shall be thankful to you for your timely guidance.

Bismillaah

A: 1. It is not permissible in Islam for a woman to travel for the distance of 78km or more without a mahram.

2-3. This is totally against the Islamic teachings and values that a woman travels in this manner and interacts freely with na mahram men. Islam lays great emphasis upon adopting the values of modesty and shame. Once a woman exposes herself to these type of situations, she looses her shame and modesty and risks her Deen and respect. The Hadith clearly explains that whenever a na mahram male and female are in seclusion, then the third person present is shaytaan. Shaytaan misleads a person in different ways. At the beginning, shaytaan engages him/her in a “decent conversation”, thereafter the relationship progresses till the point where one commits the ultimate sin. For further details refer to http://muftionline.co.za/node/419 and http://muftionline.co.za/node/7720

And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by:

Mufti Zakaria Makada

Checked & Approved:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)

This answer was collected from MuftiOnline.co.za, where the questions have been answered by Mufti Zakaria Makada (Hafizahullah), who is currently a senior lecturer in the science of Hadith and Fiqh at Madrasah Ta’leemuddeen, Isipingo Beach, South Africa.

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