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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Women Driving Cars and the Claims of the Opponents

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is your view on this statement? One of them says regarding women driving that this issue and its prohibition do not exist in the form of the Anfal (spoils of war), so we should not raise the discussion about it. The second demands reconciliation with the Shi'ah and opening special schools for them. The third accuses the books of the scholars of the Da'wah, including *al-Durr al-Saniyyah*, of being the cause of the reality of takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever). This is by Allah.

Answer:
This is all nonsense that we do not engage with. It is all nonsense; we do not waste our time on this kind of talk.
Does the Qur'an and the Sunnah descend with a verse stating that a woman does not drive a car? Did the Qur'an come down to explain every single detail, or did it come with general rules, general guidelines, and general texts from which legal rulings are derived, including the ruling on women driving cars? What is required of a woman who drives? She is required to avoid certain dangers. What is meant by this is that she holds the car's money and moves it. This is moving the vehicle, but what is required of her is that she will expose her face to men, she will mix with men, she will deal with traffic if she has a traffic violation, her car will break down on the road and she is a weak woman. So driving entails religious dangers that are not befitting a woman. This is the reason for preventing women from driving cars. The dangers required of her also include the fact that men have authority (qawwamah) over women. So if she drives the car, the man does not control her use of the car, and she goes wherever she wants. She has her key and her driving license, and she goes wherever she wants. Her guardian cannot control her or restrain her. This is among the harms of women driving cars. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-51-منهج أئمة الدعوة في مسائل التكفير والخروج|صالح الفوزان|العام — youtube.com (54:46)

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