The ruling on a woman riding with a driver without a mahram?
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, please inform us, may Allah reward you, for my heart reproaches me for doing this, and I do not know whether it is lawful or forbidden? I have a car with two compartments. When I am free, I seek a livelihood. The question is: when I am driving around the streets, I see women on the road who want to ride to the market. I suspect they are riding without a mahram. What is the ruling of the Shari'ah in that? And if they do not ride with him, they ride with someone else, meaning they are going without guardians from the market, meaning for their errands.
Answer:
A mahram is not a condition on the roads; a mahram is for travel. A mahram is a condition for travel if one intends to travel. As for on the roads, going to the market, going to school, this is not a condition for a mahram. But one woman does not ride alone; it must be a group. As for one woman, she does not ride in it; one woman does not ride. If the group is two or more, and you take them to school or to the market, there is no harm, with lowering the gaze, and without false or bad talk. You lower your gaze, you seek a livelihood, and you avoid what Allah has forbidden you from looking at or bad speech or the like of that. Yes.
Your Eminence the Shaykh, please inform us, may Allah reward you, for my heart reproaches me for doing this, and I do not know whether it is lawful or forbidden? I have a car with two compartments. When I am free, I seek a livelihood. The question is: when I am driving around the streets, I see women on the road who want to ride to the market. I suspect they are riding without a mahram. What is the ruling of the Shari'ah in that? And if they do not ride with him, they ride with someone else, meaning they are going without guardians from the market, meaning for their errands.
Answer:
A mahram is not a condition on the roads; a mahram is for travel. A mahram is a condition for travel if one intends to travel. As for on the roads, going to the market, going to school, this is not a condition for a mahram. But one woman does not ride alone; it must be a group. As for one woman, she does not ride in it; one woman does not ride. If the group is two or more, and you take them to school or to the market, there is no harm, with lowering the gaze, and without false or bad talk. You lower your gaze, you seek a livelihood, and you avoid what Allah has forbidden you from looking at or bad speech or the like of that. Yes.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 201 حكم ركوب المرأة مع السائق دون محرم؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com
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