{"id":13263,"date":"2022-10-12T17:13:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T17:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=13263"},"modified":"2022-10-12T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T17:13:48","slug":"hajj-all-eligible-women-can-now-travel-without-male-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=13263","title":{"rendered":"Hajj: All Eligible Women Can Now Travel Without Male Guardians   \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hajj: All Eligible Women Can Now Travel Without Male Guardians<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Good news as female pilgrims no longer need a guardian (mahram)\u00a0 usually a male guardian to perform Hajj or Umrah.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This was announced by Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, the Saudi Arabian Minister of Hajj and Umrah.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Saudi law stipulates that a woman needs a Mahram (guardian) which could be her father, husband, blood brother and her biological son when performing Hajj.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tawfiq Al-Rabiah,stated this on Monday, October 10, 2022, in Egypt during a meeting with his counterpart, the Egyptian Interior Minister, Mahmoud Tawfik, while discussing the 2023 Hajj preparations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The announcement brought to an end the controversy caused by a policy introduced by the kingdom in 2019.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Since then, the country has only allowed women above 40 years to travel to the country in the last lesser Hajj season without a guardian.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">With the new announcement all eligible women can now travel to the Holy Land with or without male guardians for Hajj and lesser Hajj.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hajj: All Eligible Women Can Now Travel Without Male Guardians Good news as female pilgrims no longer need a guardian (mahram)\u00a0 usually a male guardian to perform Hajj or Umrah. 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