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layout: post
title: "Ruling on traveling to non-Muslim countries"
publisher: "alsalafiyyah@icloud.com"
source: "Fatawa Al-Lajnah Al-Da'imah of KSA, Fatwa no. 21676, Question 2"
category: [fatwas,walabara]
hijri: Dhul-Hijjah 6, 1441
date: 2020-07-27
lang: en
locale: en
note: true
excerpt: "If the person who wants to travel to the land of the disbelievers needs to travel, for example, to maintain ties of kinship which is obligatory, can avoid temptation and guard his Islamic obligations, it is permissible for him to travel. However, he must not stay there for long."
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Aal Al-Shaykh
      url: /biography/abdulaziz/
  deputy_chairman:
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah ibn Ghudayyan
      url: /biography/ghudayyan/
  members: 
    - name: Shaykh Salih Fazwan
      url: /biography/fawzan/
    - name: Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd
      url: /biography/bakr/
---

### Question: 

We know a religious brother who wants to travel to Italy to visit his brothers there in order to maintain family ties. Is maintaining family ties considered a legal reason for this person to travel to the land of the disbelievers

### Answer:

If the person who wants to travel to the land of the disbelievers needs to travel, for example, to maintain ties of kinship which is obligatory, can avoid temptation and guard his Islamic obligations, it is permissible for him to travel. However, he must not stay there for long.