Woman leaving her home without a mahram
Q: Are women allowed to leave the home and only get back when the husband comes from work?
Leaving the Home
Girl travelling without a mahram to acquire deeni knowledge
Q: We know from the hadith that a woman is not allowed to travel at all a distance more than 3 days and 3 nights (78km) without a mahram. But would this prohibition be relaxed in the case where a female has to acquire deeni knowledge?
Example, in her home town there are absolutely no madrasahs. So a girl travels without a mahram for more than the safar distance and then joins a girls' boarding madrasah and lives there. Will this be permissible under the circumstances?
If not allowed: what is the status of her acquiring knowledge, will her ibaadaat be accepted there, etc?
Family vacation and trips
Q: What is the Islamic verdict on family vacation and trips, for example to parks and most isolated places where there is not a lot of people - are only the men allowed to go while the women and girls have to stay at home or can the whole family take the occasional trip/vacation to travel and sightsee?
Tying the khimaar for girls completing aalima course
Q: Will it be in accordance with shariah to tie the khimaar for completing aalima girls?
Is this not similar to the kafir graduations, and a means to developing riyaa?
Woman living without a mahram in a foreign land
Q: Is it permissible for a mahram to take a woman to Madinah and she stays there for about 2 months with other women and thereafter he comes back and fetches her?
She won't be going out of her home except going to the Haram etc. to visit the Raudhah and back home.
She won't be staying far from the Haram.
Woman leaving the home to eat in a restaurant or go shopping
Q: As a woman, is it allowed for me to uncover my hands to eat in a public restaurant, if there are non-mahram men present in the same place but not sitting at my table?
Besides this, can I expose 1-2 fingertips only for mobility when doing shopping and other things outside?
Women attending the musjid for the five daily congregational salaah
Q: Are women allowed to attend the masjid for 5 times daily salaah with congregation? Just like how in the western countries it's done?
Women going horse riding
Q: Is horse riding allowed for women?
Women going to the masjid to attend masjid programs
Q: I am a member of a Musjid committee. My question is about the ladies facility at the Musjid.
Some committee members feel that we must invite the sisters to attend some Musjid programs, especially which take place on special occasions and in Ramadhaan, in the separate ladies facility at the Musjid. There is no intermingling in the Musjid. These programs may also include meals served to them.
Other committee members are of the view that this must be avoided.
Please advise which is the correct policy to adopt in this issue.
Woman going fishing
Q: Are women allowed to fish?