The Ruling on Hiring a Female Servant Without a Mahram and the Sin of Those Who Conspire

The questioner:
May Allah forgive you. You mentioned in the lecture a long passage about the questioner who asks about hiring a maid. You said, may Allah forgive you, if he and his wife are in the house, he should not do this, but if his children are with him, he may do so if the house needs it. So I do not know about the mahram. May Allah reward you for your work.

The Shaykh:
If she is alone, he may be left alone with her. But if there are two maids, or if there are daughters or sisters in the house with her, then seclusion (khalwah) does not occur. As for hiring her after this, that is a separate matter. The mahram is necessary. It is obligatory for her family to send her with a mahram.

The questioner:
So, is the sin on the one who hires her, or on her family, or on the agency?

The Shaykh:
It is on all those who conspire to omit the mahram.

The questioner:
Even if the house needs her.

The Shaykh:
Yes, it is on those who conspire. But if he requests her and sends her with a mahram, the sin is on them.

The questioner:
Even further.

The Shaykh:
As for if the mahram is requested but it is difficult for him, he is not blamed.

The questioner:
Usually, I look at the trade. Nowadays, it is presented to the agency because you are not in need.

The Shaykh:
His agency is the one who resolved the matter. Yes.

The questioner:
But my intention is that he presents himself wanting a maid.

The Shaykh:
And he harms her family. If he is outside, he harms her family.

The questioner:
What does the one who hires her mean?

The Shaykh:
What is connected to them? So let him listen to her family.