The Almighty has said in Surah Al-An'am verse 11 in the Holy Qur'an:
"Tell them to walk on the earth and see what was the end of the deniers."
It is as if a purposeful entertainment is allowed.
The blessed lives of the Prophets (peace be upon them) also mention frequent travels.
Adam (peace be upon him) traveled from heaven to earth.
The ark of Prophet Noah (peace be upon him) was on a voyage of water for a time.
Hazrat Ibrahim (PBUH) traveled from Iraq to Palestine and then to the Holy Hijaz several times.
The Qur'an has also described the journey of Prophet Moses (peace be upon him) in detail.
And Khatam-ul-Anbiya Mohsin is full of many blessings on the conditions of migration and conquests of the Sira-e-Taiba of humanity.
Every living nation that wants to maintain its existence in the world wants to be aware of the conditions of the world. Tourism has always been the way of living people of living nations. Traveling through known worlds and exploring unknown worlds through tourism is the breadth of human mind and civilization. It causes cultural sharing. In the millennium Muslim era, many tourists were born. At that time, tourism was a kind of certificate in education.
Ibn Battuta is a great Muslim tourist. His name is Ibn Battuta. He was born on February 13, 1304, in the small town of Nangir in Morocco. He also wrote a famous travelogue "Rahala". In this book he has narrated the story of a journey of 75,000 miles. He traveled in the form of caravans and sometimes alone. During this time he visited all Islamic countries and He also visited Smarta and some parts of China.
Bin Batuta was the beacon of a learned family. His entire family belonged to the Qaza department. The majority of local judges belonged to Ibn Batuta's family. He also studied Islamic jurisprudence and Qaza in his childhood and early youth.
In 1325, when he was 21 years old, he started his tourism by performing the obligatory Hajj. During this time, he also learned from various Shafi'i jurists of Egypt, Syria and the Hijaz and learned from the leading scholars on this school of jurisprudence. Due to this educational endeavor, he got a degree in the science of jurisprudence and jurisprudence and he was able to hold an important position in any court.
He chose Egypt for the position of Qaza, but arrived there, but the tourist nature was ready to travel to Kosiro and, seeking knowledge and trade as a means to achieve the goal, set out on a journey through the country and decided in principle not to repeat the same route. During this journey he met kings, governors, sultans and rulers. The stories of his long journeys were not without interest for the people of this ruling class. In these meetings Ibn Battuta where his detailed He would have presented the situation in a very pleasant manner and would have arranged for Zadra for the next journey there. Remember that in those days newspapers and other sources of information that are available today were not available and the conditions of other worlds were known only through the mouths of such tourists, so whenever a tourist arrived, the people, the rulers and the people all Jim Ghafir used to gather around them and get word of mouth from the tourists and get acquainted with the situation in the country and in the villages.
For a long time he traveled in Africa, the Arabian Desert and Central Asia. During this time he traveled all kinds of desert, river and sea routes. According to his writings, he saw storms rising from the Gobi Desert. He also stayed in Hijaz for 3 years but once again tourism prevailed. Now he heard that a ruler named Muhammad bin Tughlaq is in power in Delhi. This king's knowledge and friendliness was very famous, then Ibn Battuta He set out for Delhi and set out to visit the king's court. This time he chose new routes, and via Turkey he traveled through Samar kandu bakhara in Russian territory to Afghanistan and then to the Hindu Kush. He entered South Asia via the Indus River. When he was entering the Indian subcontinent, according to him, it was 12 September 1333. According to one estimate, he had completed such a long journey in a short period of one year.
Ibn Batuta's city had already reached here before his arrival in Delhi. Shah Muhammad ibn Tughlaq came out of Delhi to receive Ibn Batuta and took him by the hand. Many gifts and presents were presented. The king praised Ibn Batuta's virtue. Due to his knowledge, he was offered the post of Qaza of Delhi on which Ibn Battuta continued to perform his duties for years. Shah Muhammad ibn Tughlaq was at the same time very compassionate and very cruel in his temperament. Forgiving enemies and crucifying friends. Ibn Battuta was very much afraid of his nature. Once the king sent Ibn Battuta as his ambassador to the kingdom of China, on the way the robbers surrounded his caravan. He survived but survived. Official gifts were looted. Fearing Ibn Batuta Sultan, the Maldives was reformed and remained hidden there for two years, during which time the position of Qaza remained in his plate. He also visited the Maldives, Bengal and Assam and its conditions. He wrote in detail in his book. In these countries he was involved in politics, married into the royal family and took part in wars. After a while, his passion for traveling in China stole him. He anchored at the port of Zeitan, where the local Muslim king helped him to travel to China by river, and he also visited Beijing at that time. From there he returned to Baghdad via Smarta, Malabar and the Persian Gulf. From Baghdad to Syria and then through Egypt, he performed the last Hajj of his life in 1348 for which he blessed the journey to the Holy Hijaz.
But so far he had not seen two Muslim countries, so around 1350 he set out for Granada, the last city in Muslim Spain. He then reformed West Sudan. During this time he spent a year in the African country of Mali. His writings are the most authoritative source of the African situation of the time. Now old age was knocking at his door and youth was leaving with its energies and strengths. Returning to his homeland Morocco, he began penning his memoirs at the king's request and at the same time performing the post of qadha. In his last years he lost his sight and in 1368 this great traveler was called to death. He was buried in his native village. ۔
His book "Rahla" is the only book of its kind. The historical, cultural and political conditions of his time are described in great detail in this book. Ibn Battuta met 60 kings, many ministers and governors and about 2,000 people. There were those who had a personal relationship with Ibn Battuta. These people belonged to the whole Islamic world. Asia, Africa and some parts of Europe were trampled under his feet and many waves of seas and rivers saw Ibn Battuta. His book lacks geographical knowledge because he was probably a man of law and a mere hobby made him a tourist. His book does not even mention the search for a new land.
Mohsin-Insaniyat used to choose another way to return when he used to travel from one place to another. This is a lesson for the Ummah to expand the habit of observation. Travel reveals the secrets of other worlds, breadth of vision and study tastes The human being who travels acquires knowledge of the history and geography of nations, as a result of which where there is psychological confidence, there is an increase in leadership abilities and whenever a person reaches the place of a collective decision, the mysteries of the past and the world. The experiences of humanity are before him and he is able to guide his country, nation and people in the right way. Above all, the conditions that are recorded after the journey are the trust of the coming generations and the conditions of the past days. They become the most authoritative source of knowledge. Let the Muslim Ummah continue to generate purposeful tourists in the future as well as in its glorious past, Ameen.
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