What is the ruling on a woman riding with a driver for transportation within the city or outside of it?

The questioner : What is the ruling on riding with a driver for transportation within the city or outside the city?

The Shaykh : The matter varies from one country to another. If it is a country where it is feared that a woman might ride alone with a driver and he might run away with her, as happens in some countries, then in this case, by way of blocking the means to harm, it is not permissible for her to ride alone with the driver. And it is even more emphatically not permissible for her to ride outside the city, and this is more emphatic and stronger due to exposing herself to fitnah (trial, discord or temptation).

The questioner : He saysThe questioner : ... appeared to a man.

Another questioner : ... the other one, O Shaykh. You just mentioned the likelihood of danger to the woman. Now, if there is no danger to the woman, for example in a country that has some security, like the countries here, is it permissible for her to ride alone with him?

The Shaykh : And what danger remains, you say, regarding the man?

The questioner : I mean for the woman; if there is no danger in her riding alone with the man, with the driver, to take her to school or to the market?

The Shaykh : The answer is clear: if there is no danger, it is permissible; otherwise, it is not.

The questioner : Even if she is alone?

The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner : Even if she is alone with the driver?

The Shaykh : The question is about being alone, even if she is alone, the question is about being alone?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : That is it.
Yes.