Does the saying of Allah the Exalted: “They said: We do not water until the shepherds have gone, and our father is an old man” indicate the permissibility of a woman working, provided there is need and no free mixing of men and women?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, some shepherds say we take the conditions for a woman’s work, which you mentioned as need and no free mixing of men and women, from the saying of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, in the story of Madyan when Musa passed through Madyan. Allah the Exalted said: Is this derivation correct?

Answer:
It has a basis. It has a basis in that they are weak and cannot repel the strong, and also in terms of modesty, that they preserve their modesty. So it has a basis in the noble verse. But there is something more explicit than that, yes: This is more explicit, because a woman with a man is in a state of shyness and fear of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation); she is veiled, and she is also not mixing with or touching the non-mahram man. Yes.