Ruling on women traveling to another city with a driver without a mahram
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Some female teachers or students travel from one city to another for study or teaching, moving from Unaizah to Buraydah or vice versa, and a driver accompanies them to transport them, but the driver is not accompanied by a mahram. Sometimes the travel is to a distant region. What is the ruling for these teachers and students? And what is the ruling on this driver’s salary?
What we see is: The fact that teachers go to teach in a region and return on the same day is not considered travel; because they do not prepare for it with the provisions of travel, they are not bid farewell when departing, and they are not greeted upon returning. And if it is not travel, then there is no harm in women going with the driver without a mahram,On the condition: 1- That he be trustworthy.
2- That he does not isolate himself with any one of them. If he isolates himself with any one of them, it is forbidden; because of seclusion.
As for the driver’s salary or his reward, there is no harm in it; because it is a wage for a permissible matter.
The questioner: Even if the education administration requires that a mahram be with him?The Shaykh: If the Ministry of Education requires that a mahram be with them, then this condition must be fulfilled if it is committed to.
What we see is: The fact that teachers go to teach in a region and return on the same day is not considered travel; because they do not prepare for it with the provisions of travel, they are not bid farewell when departing, and they are not greeted upon returning. And if it is not travel, then there is no harm in women going with the driver without a mahram,On the condition: 1- That he be trustworthy.
2- That he does not isolate himself with any one of them. If he isolates himself with any one of them, it is forbidden; because of seclusion.
As for the driver’s salary or his reward, there is no harm in it; because it is a wage for a permissible matter.
The questioner: Even if the education administration requires that a mahram be with him?The Shaykh: If the Ministry of Education requires that a mahram be with them, then this condition must be fulfilled if it is committed to.