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Is Living A Permanent Loner Nomadic Lifestyle Allowed In Islam?
Some social media content creators on the internet live a nomadic Van life. They live in a Campervan or RV and drive it on the roads. That vehicle is their mobile home. They go to various places in the wilderness like in the mountains, deserts, woods and camp there for some days, then go back on the roads again. It’s somewhat similar to the bedouin lifestyle because they are not permanently settled in a specific place, but unlike the bedouin (who travel in groups) these Campervan owners are mostly loners and travel by themselves. So while the bedouin can pray in congregations, these loner nomadic people can’t.
My question is, as a Muslim is it permissible to live a loner nomadic lifestyle like this? because in the wilderness it’s not possible to pray the jumuah prayer. When someone is travelling from one settlement to another settlement they are not obligated to pray the Jumuah. But in this case they deliberately leave their cities/towns/settlements and become nomads permanently. It is likely guaranteed that a lot of Jumuah prayers will be skipped in this nomadic lifestyle. Are these nomadic people considered the same as travelers and therefore exempt from praying the Jumuah? I also read in a website that if someone lives outside of the city then attending the Friday prayer is not obligatory for him, so do these nomads also fall under this category? Or is this lifestyle not permissible at all in Islam?
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Is Living A Permanent Loner Nomadic Lifestyle Allowed In Islam?
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Islam doesn’t necessitate to create the conditions to fulfil a religious obligation. For example, if a man decides not to earn more than his needs he is not obliged to earn more than his needs to pay zakat.
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But let’s say someone is already established in a city with a well paid job and can pray Jumuah in the city Masjid. Would it be permissible for him to abandon that well paid job and leave the city to become a nomadic van lifer? Because in this way he deliberately endorses a poorer life where he won’t be able to give zakat and pray Jumuah
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Yes. He can. In whatever condition he chooses to live he has to fulfil his religious duties accordingly.
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Ok, thank you. JazakAllah
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