I’ve read your article and sounds good to me. It’s been my ultimate dream to go to Macca and perform Hajj but due to financial constraint, I couldn’t go. As a solution, I took up Nursing so that after I could go to Saudi Arabia to work there and hopefully to perform Hajj as well. It’s been 5 years now since I’ve graduated and started to work here in our country, Philippines, because I’ve heard from most of our scholars here that “Women are not allowed to travel without Mahram”. For all these years, I’ve been controlling myself to apply for work in Saudi Arabia. I have so many female single friends who already applied and worked there for years and they wanted to request so that I could perform Hajj too as they did. It’s so hard for me to decide given that I am being torn between the idea of performing Hajj and following the sunnah and guidance of Islam. I hope you could give me an advise regarding on this matter.

Jazakumullahu khair

VERY VERY WELL SAID, SISTER!!! You put it the way it is. Exactly!!!!!!
TO THE POINT!
Fully agree with all your points. One additional thing maybe: Some men don’t care about their hijab either: They don’t even think about trimming their mustaches and growing their beards – out of PRIDE, but talk badly about women who don’t wear proper hijab. Some men don’t care about their awra in the summer. You can’t even distinguish them from the non-muslims. But they’ll point at muslim women, who dare to walk in the public. So sad people are leaving the sunnah and neglecting their duties but are eager to remind women of their responsibilities, restrictions and duties.

May Allah (swt) bless you and forgive all of us. Ameen.

Jazakallah Khayran sister.

for example,

i am muslim and i want to either go out some day or go on vacation for a few days for fun and my non muslim girl friend wants to go, too. she is not a bad influence and we would not sin on this night out or vacation. is that allowed since i would technically not be alone?