How can we reconcile the permissibility of traveling by plane and being in an airport, despite the presence of reprehensible acts therein, with Ibn Taymiyyah's statement that "witnessing reprehensible acts without need or coercion is impermissible," and the sayings that "one who is present at a reprehensible act by his own choice, without necessity, is like its perpetrator," and "a person's travel to a place where he sees reprehensible acts and is unable to change them, or fears falling into them, is forbidden except for compelling necessity"? Does the distinction between "a place established for the sake of reprehensible acts" and "a permissible place where a reprehensible act occurred" resolve this contradiction? Is the interpretation of the verse: (And those who do not witness falsehood, and when they pass by ill speech, they pass by with dignity) [25:72]—that the forbidden witnessing is the intentional seeking out of reprehensible acts—correct? What is the ruling on going to a restaurant or an amusement park where there are unveiled women, while lowering one's gaze?

There is no contradiction between the prohibition of witnessing evil without need or compulsion and the permissibility of boarding an airplane for a lawful purpose. Simply boarding the plane does not imply permission to witness evil acts. One who adheres to lowering their gaze and avoiding what is forbidden during the flight is not considered a witness to evil. The saying that it is forbidden for a person to travel to a place where they see evil and are unable to change it does not contradict boarding a plane for someone who commits to lowering their gaze. Witnessing evil on a plane differs from witnessing it in other places from which one can depart, because the most one can do on a plane is to lower their gaze. The interpretation of the verse: "And when they pass by ill speech, they pass by with dignity," does not contradict this, and means that they do not attend falsehood, and if they pass by it, they pass by with dignity. There is no objection to eating in a restaurant where an unveiled woman serves, as long as one lowers their gaze, though choosing a place free of such is better.