Hiring Domestic Workers from Recruitment Agencies
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, some recruitment agencies employ domestic workers under the agency's name and rent them out to others, according to the new recruitment system. The question is: when there is a need for such a worker, am I permitted to hire her so that I am saved from the prohibition of bringing her in without a mahram?
Answer:
All of these matters are very serious. Employing women without mahrams and treating them like animals, keeping them in the servants' quarters, is a very serious calamity. They are all calamities, and there is no power or strength except with Allah.
Honorable Shaykh, some recruitment agencies employ domestic workers under the agency's name and rent them out to others, according to the new recruitment system. The question is: when there is a need for such a worker, am I permitted to hire her so that I am saved from the prohibition of bringing her in without a mahram?
Answer:
All of these matters are very serious. Employing women without mahrams and treating them like animals, keeping them in the servants' quarters, is a very serious calamity. They are all calamities, and there is no power or strength except with Allah.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب المساقاة والإجارة — islamhouse.com (57:12)
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