The Ruling on a Woman Driving a Car
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Question:
May Allah guide you. The questioner asks: What is your opinion, Honorable Shaykh, on this statement? One of them says that regarding women driving, this issue exists, and indeed its prohibition is in Surat al-Amsal, so that we do not raise the discussion about it. The second demands taking a distance from the Shi'ah and other schools.
Answer:
with him. The third accuses the books of the Imams of the Da'wah, including 'Abd al-Razzaq al-Simi, of being the cause of the reality of takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever). All of this is nonsense that we do not seek help from. All of this is nonsense; it is not befitting to describe this speech in such a way. Did the Qur'an and the Sunnah descend with a verse stating that a woman does not drive a car? Did the Qur'an descend to explain every single thing? Or did the Qur'an come with general principles, general bonds, and general texts from which legal rulings are derived, including the ruling on women driving cars? What is required of a woman who drives a car?
What is required of her is that there are things that are not permissible. Some of the speech is that you forget that you are driving the car and moving it. This is moving a machine. 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 to deal with traffic. And her car will break down in the desert. A weak woman.
So driving entails legal precautions that are not befitting for a woman. This is the reason for preventing women from driving cars: the precautions that are required of her. Also, the woman is under the guardianship (qawwamah) of the man. If she drives the car, the man does not have control over her. The operation of the car takes her out. Yes, the voice and the head of the driver, so he wants to drive her and steer her, but he does not control her and does not have power over her. This is among the defects of women driving.
May Allah guide you. The questioner asks: What is your opinion, Honorable Shaykh, on this statement? One of them says that regarding women driving, this issue exists, and indeed its prohibition is in Surat al-Amsal, so that we do not raise the discussion about it. The second demands taking a distance from the Shi'ah and other schools.
Answer:
with him. The third accuses the books of the Imams of the Da'wah, including 'Abd al-Razzaq al-Simi, of being the cause of the reality of takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever). All of this is nonsense that we do not seek help from. All of this is nonsense; it is not befitting to describe this speech in such a way. Did the Qur'an and the Sunnah descend with a verse stating that a woman does not drive a car? Did the Qur'an descend to explain every single thing? Or did the Qur'an come with general principles, general bonds, and general texts from which legal rulings are derived, including the ruling on women driving cars? What is required of a woman who drives a car?
What is required of her is that there are things that are not permissible. Some of the speech is that you forget that you are driving the car and moving it. This is moving a machine. 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 to deal with traffic. And her car will break down in the desert. A weak woman.
So driving entails legal precautions that are not befitting for a woman. This is the reason for preventing women from driving cars: the precautions that are required of her. Also, the woman is under the guardianship (qawwamah) of the man. If she drives the car, the man does not have control over her. The operation of the car takes her out. Yes, the voice and the head of the driver, so he wants to drive her and steer her, but he does not control her and does not have power over her. This is among the defects of women driving.
Source
قيادة المرأة للسيارة — alfawzan.live
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