Lending out maids and taking their wages
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible to lend out maids, given that they come from their countries with work contracts only with their sponsors, but the sponsor lends them out and earns a living from their wages?
Answer:
If what results from lending her out is harm, meaning he lends her to a woman or lends a man who is employed, but if he lends a woman to a non-mahram and there is a fear that he will commit a sin with her or take pleasure in her, then that is not permissible. As previously stated to you, a woman is not to be lent out to anyone other than her mahram or another woman; she is not to be lent out to a non-mahram if there is a fear that corruption will occur between them.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible to lend out maids, given that they come from their countries with work contracts only with their sponsors, but the sponsor lends them out and earns a living from their wages?
Answer:
If what results from lending her out is harm, meaning he lends her to a woman or lends a man who is employed, but if he lends a woman to a non-mahram and there is a fear that he will commit a sin with her or take pleasure in her, then that is not permissible. As previously stated to you, a woman is not to be lent out to anyone other than her mahram or another woman; she is not to be lent out to a non-mahram if there is a fear that corruption will occur between them.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/93 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (52:19)
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