Is it permissible to travel to Luxor and Aswan for five days without a mahram, knowing that the father has agreed to the travel without escort, and that the two daughters are adults, and the mother is 52 years old?
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A woman is not permitted to travel without a (unmarriageable kin) except out of necessity, and there is no difference in this ruling between an elderly woman and a young one. Therefore, if there is no necessity for you to travel without a mahram, then you are not permitted to travel, and there is no obedience to your mother in this matter, because obedience is only due in that which is good and lawful.
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