Challenges of Non-Muslim Tourists across Islamic Countries Regarding To the Domestic Laws and International Regulations

Tourism is an unavoidable necessity in the international relationship and negligence to this matter would cause undesirable results. Islam has looked after the good effects of tourism thus various verses of the Holy Quran and authentic speeches from the holy imams has focused on the physical and spiritual faces of it through encouraging and commanding about going to travels and trips. Islamic jurisprudence had also determined proper rules for entrance and presence of the people of other religions by using the Quran and "Sunnah" with a look on the importance of this phenomenon. Many arguments about the presence of tourists of other religions can be presented. Whether the citizens of the other religions permitted to enter the Islamic country and inhabit in it or not? How can they transport across the Islamic country? After answering to these questions we should study the problem of their visit from holy places. In this essay, these issues had been argued in the format of three topics: "the entrance of the heathens to the Masjid-al-Haraam", "the inhabitations of heathens in Hijaz" and "the entrance of heathens to the mosques". Studying these principles and total items of their behavior in the Islamic countries is also one of the important parts of this article.