What is your opinion on people bringing in maids, with the condition that the man takes the maid with him for Hajj?
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Question:
Many people have fallen into a serious matter, which is that they bring in maids, and one of the conditions is that the man takes the maid to Hajj. Many violate this condition, and some take them to Hajj without a mahram. What is your opinion, Your Eminence?
Answer:
This is impossible if she is in the house of a prisoner or in a place where they perform Hajj, or if she performs Hajj with them, because she is their mahram; she goes with them and comes back with them in this situation, and they do not leave her behind, except if she is in the care of trustworthy people who are not her mahrams, in which case she does not travel except with a mahram. Even if the condition is Hajj with people who are her mahrams, she must be a mahram in her arrival from her country and in her Hajj as well. As for the people providing for her, such as her eating from her country, whether from Morocco, Indonesia, or India, without a mahram, this is not permissible.
It is upon the one who brought her, or upon her mahrams, to bring her, or upon her side to bring her with her mahram, then return to her mahram’s concern, then return to what her family desires. The point is that it is obligatory to observe the mahram in everything, whether in her arrival, her travel, or her oath. However, if we assume that they are travelers, she is with them, and there is no place to leave her, it is obligatory that she be with them so that they protect her.
Many people have fallen into a serious matter, which is that they bring in maids, and one of the conditions is that the man takes the maid to Hajj. Many violate this condition, and some take them to Hajj without a mahram. What is your opinion, Your Eminence?
Answer:
This is impossible if she is in the house of a prisoner or in a place where they perform Hajj, or if she performs Hajj with them, because she is their mahram; she goes with them and comes back with them in this situation, and they do not leave her behind, except if she is in the care of trustworthy people who are not her mahrams, in which case she does not travel except with a mahram. Even if the condition is Hajj with people who are her mahrams, she must be a mahram in her arrival from her country and in her Hajj as well. As for the people providing for her, such as her eating from her country, whether from Morocco, Indonesia, or India, without a mahram, this is not permissible.
It is upon the one who brought her, or upon her mahrams, to bring her, or upon her side to bring her with her mahram, then return to her mahram’s concern, then return to what her family desires. The point is that it is obligatory to observe the mahram in everything, whether in her arrival, her travel, or her oath. However, if we assume that they are travelers, she is with them, and there is no place to leave her, it is obligatory that she be with them so that they protect her.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 296 ما رأيكم في استقدام الناس خادمات، ويشترطون أن تذهب مع الرجل للحج؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com
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