Warning Against the Fitnah of Seclusion with Drivers and Their Mixing with the Family

Question:
The first message in this episode is from a listener who says: Your brother in Allah, Noun Ayn al-F al-Sudanese, residing in the Kingdom. Our brother says: I work as a driver

Answer:
in one of the houses in the Kingdom. I face several problems, one of which is that I am forced to drive the wife of the house owner to the market or to work without a mahram (a relative one may not marry). Knowing that this is not permissible, what is your advice to me and to the house owner? May Allah reward you with good. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. After that, one of the trials that Muslims face in our current time is the issue of drivers and their seclusion with women in cars, as well as their entering houses, their mixing with women and mahrams. All of these are causes of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) and causes of evil. It is obligatory for the people of the houses to fear Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), and to know that the driver is a stranger to their women, and that fitnah is present and not safe with the driver or with anyone else. He said: If the danger of the husband’s relative is severe, and it is death, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, despite his affection for his relative and his jealousy for his relative, how much more so is it with the stranger, or with the man whose trustworthiness and uprightness you do not know? In any case, even if he is one of the best of people, his presence with women and his seclusion with a woman is a great fitnah. He said (peace and blessings be upon him): So the heads of the houses must fear Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and guard themselves against this great danger, and not allow their women to ride with the drivers alone, because of the seclusion and the exposure to fitnah. They must beware of this laxity and negligence, and not let blind trust lead them to feel safe from fitnah, evil, and what is to be feared. Nor should laziness, lack of laxity, and lack of concern lead them to be lax in this matter. Rather, they must keep it before their eyes, and not allow their daughters, their women, or their female relatives to ride alone with the drivers, no matter who they are, because of the fitnah in it, and because of the evil that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) warned against, who does not speak from desire. Yes.