Is it permissible for a group of women to ride with a non-mahram driver within the city?
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Question:
Is it permissible for women to ride in what they call limousines, knowing that there is more than one woman, and that this is within the city without a mahram?
Answer:
Yes, if we are a group with the driver, whether he is Zayn or someone else, and the driver is not one who is suspected of wrongdoing, nothing has been found against him, and nothing is known about him, he is not one who is suspected of wrongdoing, and they are a group of women and they are leaving the town, then there is no harm in that. What is forbidden is a woman riding alone with a driver who is not her mahram; this is what is forbidden, because it is seclusion, and it is not permissible.
Is it permissible for women to ride in what they call limousines, knowing that there is more than one woman, and that this is within the city without a mahram?
Answer:
Yes, if we are a group with the driver, whether he is Zayn or someone else, and the driver is not one who is suspected of wrongdoing, nothing has been found against him, and nothing is known about him, he is not one who is suspected of wrongdoing, and they are a group of women and they are leaving the town, then there is no harm in that. What is forbidden is a woman riding alone with a driver who is not her mahram; this is what is forbidden, because it is seclusion, and it is not permissible.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز لجماعة من النساء الركوب مع سائق أجنبي داخل المدينة؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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