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## Mahram

Other Commonly Used Spellings: MAHRIM

> A mahram refers to the group of people who are unlawful for a woman to marry due to marital or blood relationships. These people include:

> 1. Her permanant Mahrams due to blood relationship, and those seven are: her father, her son (who passed puberty), her brother, her uncle from her father's side, her brother's son, her sister's son, and her uncle from her mother's side.
> 2. Her Radha' Mahrams due to sharing the nursing milk when she was an infant, and their status is similar to the permanent seven Mahrams (i.e. nothing can change their status).
> 3. Her (in law) Mahrams because of marriage and they are: her husband's father (father in law), her husband's son (step son), her mother's husband (step father), and her daughter's husband.

> These categories of people, along with the woman's husband, form the group of allowable escorts for a Muslim woman when she travels.

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