Women on Hajj

1,773 questions

A very important question that has perplexed me: What is the ruling on a woman's participation in jihad?
Is the command in the Noble Verse: (And abide in your houses) for obligation or for recommendation?
Is it permissible for a woman to travel for Hajj with a campaign without a mahram if her only mahram is unable to travel with her?
A girl got her menses at the age of eleven, so is she obligated to fast despite her poor health, and what is incumbent upon her if she is unable to fast?
What is the ruling on a wife going out alone in a car at night from the university after Asr and returning at the time of Isha prayer without a mahram or companion?
What is the ruling on a woman traveling to study in another country without a mahram, knowing that her travel is essential to complete her education, and the duration of the travel does not exceed two hours, and she is with a team of women?
Is it permissible to appoint someone to perform Umrah on behalf of a woman who cannot travel to perform it herself due to the unavailability of a mahram for her, despite her financial and physical ability?
Is it obligatory to wash undergarments if the yellowish discharge that women experience reaches them, or is it permissible to leave it and pray?
What is the ruling on a man touching women on the palm of the hand only in Ramadan and semen being discharged?
Is it permissible to kiss the head of a paternal female cousin or shake her hand over her hijab due to her old age?
Are the intermittent brown or orange discharges before menstruation, which continued for 8 days during Hajj and later changed color to menstrual blood, considered istihadah (vaginal bleeding outside of menstruation), and do they affect the Tawaf Al-Ifadah?
What is your advice to university girls who compete in not wearing the hijab, or wearing an un-Islamic hijab, and who talk to young men without restriction, and travel with them without a mahram? What is the ruling if their guardians encourage this for the purpose of marriage?
Is zakat obligatory on money that was designated for 'Umrah, but the 'Umrah was not performed due to the unavailability of a mahram?
Is a young man permitted to refrain from marriage after the death of a girl he intended to marry, believing that she will be his wife in Paradise, and that a man's worldly wife will be his wife in Paradise?
Is it permissible for me to travel to learn sewing at a distance exceeding one hundred kilometers without a mahram, knowing that my family refuses to accompany me and justifies this by saying that transportation is safe and that this is not travel like in the days of the Messenger, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him?
Is it true that there is a jurisprudential opinion which holds that a man's 'awrah in front of a woman is his entire body except for the face and hands?
What is the ruling on a Muslim woman marrying a man who does not pray and commits some sins, such as speaking with non-mahram women and smoking, given that the father is forcing his daughter into this marriage? Would she be legally excused if she marries him out of fear of her father?
What are the manners a traveler should observe, especially if his journey is for Hajj?
What is the ruling on women washing clothes and dishes in canals, and raising their arms and cloaks under the pretext of necessity, while clean water is available in their homes, and in imitation of what mothers and grandmothers used to do?
How can one atone for masturbating while fasting, for someone who did not know that this act is masturbation, and how can one be cured of this practice?
Should a deceased woman be perfumed like a man, and should the shrouds of both men and women be perfumed, or is perfuming the deceased specific to men?
Is not Ayatollah Khomeini's talk about fondling considered sexual assault and child rape? And did the Prophet Muhammad like to play with young female slaves, and did he use Aisha only for this purpose?
What are the particularities of Hajj for women that distinguish them from men?
Is it permissible for the women of Mecca to perform Hajj without a mahram, accompanied by a group of women and without any men among them?

Women on Hajj

A very important question that has perplexed me: What is the ruling on a woman's participation in jihad?

Is the command in the Noble Verse: (And abide in your houses) for obligation or for recommendation?

Is it permissible for a woman to travel for Hajj with a campaign without a mahram if her only mahram is unable to travel with her?

A girl got her menses at the age of eleven, so is she obligated to fast despite her poor health, and what is incumbent upon her if she is unable to fast?

What is the ruling on a wife going out alone in a car at night from the university after Asr and returning at the time of Isha prayer without a mahram or companion?

What is the ruling on a woman traveling to study in another country without a mahram, knowing that her travel is essential to complete her education, and the duration of the travel does not exceed two hours, and she is with a team of women?

Is it permissible to appoint someone to perform Umrah on behalf of a woman who cannot travel to perform it herself due to the unavailability of a mahram for her, despite her financial and physical ability?

Is it obligatory to wash undergarments if the yellowish discharge that women experience reaches them, or is it permissible to leave it and pray?

What is the ruling on a man touching women on the palm of the hand only in Ramadan and semen being discharged?

Is it permissible to kiss the head of a paternal female cousin or shake her hand over her hijab due to her old age?

Are the intermittent brown or orange discharges before menstruation, which continued for 8 days during Hajj and later changed color to menstrual blood, considered istihadah (vaginal bleeding outside of menstruation), and do they affect the Tawaf Al-Ifadah?

What is your advice to university girls who compete in not wearing the hijab, or wearing an un-Islamic hijab, and who talk to young men without restriction, and travel with them without a mahram? What is the ruling if their guardians encourage this for the purpose of marriage?

Is zakat obligatory on money that was designated for 'Umrah, but the 'Umrah was not performed due to the unavailability of a mahram?

Is a young man permitted to refrain from marriage after the death of a girl he intended to marry, believing that she will be his wife in Paradise, and that a man's worldly wife will be his wife in Paradise?

Is it true that there is a jurisprudential opinion which holds that a man's 'awrah in front of a woman is his entire body except for the face and hands?

What is the ruling on a Muslim woman marrying a man who does not pray and commits some sins, such as speaking with non-mahram women and smoking, given that the father is forcing his daughter into this marriage? Would she be legally excused if she marries him out of fear of her father?

What are the manners a traveler should observe, especially if his journey is for Hajj?

What is the ruling on women washing clothes and dishes in canals, and raising their arms and cloaks under the pretext of necessity, while clean water is available in their homes, and in imitation of what mothers and grandmothers used to do?

How can one atone for masturbating while fasting, for someone who did not know that this act is masturbation, and how can one be cured of this practice?

Should a deceased woman be perfumed like a man, and should the shrouds of both men and women be perfumed, or is perfuming the deceased specific to men?

Is not Ayatollah Khomeini's talk about fondling considered sexual assault and child rape? And did the Prophet Muhammad like to play with young female slaves, and did he use Aisha only for this purpose?

What are the particularities of Hajj for women that distinguish them from men?

Is it permissible for the women of Mecca to perform Hajj without a mahram, accompanied by a group of women and without any men among them?