3.3. THE CATEGORIES OF TRAVEL AND THEIR RULINGS
Also, travelling the lands for other than a legislated purpose, like what some monks undertake, this is a prohibited action. Imam Ahmad said “Travelling is not something from Islam, nor is it from the actions of the Prophets, or the righteous people.”
As for the travelling mentioned in Qur’an, from His saying:
“…those who repent (to Allah), who worship (Him), who praise (Him), who go out in Allah’s Cause…” (al-Tawbah (9):112),
and from His saying:
“Muslim women, believers, obedient (to Allah), turning (to Allah) in repentance, worshipping (Allah), going out (in Allah’s Cause), previously married and virgins” (al-Tahrim (66):5.);
it does not refer to this contrived travelling, as Allah described the women who married His Messenger with it (i.e. those who go out in His Cause), and it is not legislated for the married woman to travel about in the wilderness in this manner.
Rather, what is meant by going out is two things:
One of them is fasting. As ( Amr Ibn Dinar narrated from Yahya Ibn Ju’dah, that the Prophet said, “What is permissible is clear, and what is prohibited is clear, and what is between them are doubtful matters, about which many people don’t know So he who avoids doubtful matters exonerates himself in regard to his honour and his religion. But he who falls into doubtful matters (eventually) falls into what is unlawful, like a shepherd who pastures around a sanctuary, all but grazing therein. Truly, every king has a sanctuary, and truly Allah’s sanctuary is his prohibitions. Truly, in the body there is a morsel of flesh which if it is good, then the entire body is good, and if it is diseased, the entire body is diseased. Truly, it is the heart.”
However, if someone leaves off what is prohibited or doubtful by leaving off what is compulsory or recommended, and the resulting sin or shortcoming is greater than the sin of doing the prohibited or doubtful thing, then this is not legislated.This is like what Abu Talib al-Makkl and Abu Hamid al-Ghazall have mentioned, that Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal was asked about someone who left off something that was not doubtful (some wealth), and he had an outstanding debt, so his son asked him, ‘Should I leave this money that is doubtful and not repay it (the debt)?’ So he said to him, ‘Deposit it’.
By Shaykhu’l-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah
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