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Fatwa CenterRuling of a Female Residing and Studying Abroad
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My question is i have a frnd she want to study abroad is it halal or permissible for her to travel with mahram to that country she wants to study and live alone without mahram in a safe environment. Because as far as i know she can live alone if she is sure she can follow the deen and cqn save herself from all the fitnah and traveled with a mahram.
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All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
There is no harm in her living alone without a Mahram (non-Marriageable man), as long as she is in a safe environment where she feels secure in terms of her well-being and religion.
Ibn Qudamah 
said in Al-Mughni: “The Mahram should accompany her until she is settled in a place. Then, if he feels it is safe, he may leave, or if he wishes, he may stay with her.”
Our advice is that she makes an effort to find a religiously-committed woman to stay with her in her residence, as it is discouraged to stay alone, as narrated by Ahmad in his Musnad from Ibn ‘Umar 
that it has been reported from the Prophet that he has prohibited solitude, whether it entails staying the night alone or traveling alone. [Al-Albani has graded this Hadith as Sahih [sound], and Al-Haythami said: “Its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.”]
In Fayd al-Qadir Al-Munawi explained the statement of the Messenger of Allah ‘He prohibited solitude’: “Meaning that a man, or similarly a woman, should not sleep alone in a place with no one else in it.”
Allah knows best.
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