The ruling on handing over a driver and a maid to the authorities if a lewd act is established against them
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His Eminence the Shaykh: Some people hire drivers and maids and keep them in their homes, and it happens that one of them sneaks to the other and harm results from them, then the owner of the house discovers this act and he either covers it up and says: I do not like problems and covering up is obligatory,And some of them say: No, I must hand them over to the authorities so they receive their punishment, and so that I do not neglect the rulings of Allah regarding them.
So what do you think, may Allah reward you?
First, we say to this man: You have made a great mistake, and you have a share of the sin of this transgression; because you are the cause, and this is not permissible for him under any circumstances; because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade a man to be alone with a woman unless she is with a mahram, so what about the one who sleeps with her?Second: If the feared thing happens, what I see is that we should report it; because there is a benefit in this, which is that people will be cautious about hiring servants, and they will be cautious about leaving a male and a female alone,And if the issue were regarding the servants, we would say: Covering up is better, but this is for the public interest so that people will be cautious about hiring servants, which has become a fashion among fashions, and a boast among boasts, until a person hires a maid without need, or a driver without need,Until it was said to me: Some people have more servants than family members.
You find a house that has only a man and his wife and four servants, why? Perhaps people will reduce hiring servants.
The questioner: Is it obligatory to hand them over to the authorities?Answer: The issue of obligation is something else; because obligation means sin in leaving it.
We say: He informs the authorities for the benefit that I mentioned.
The questioner: Some people say: I fear that if I cover it up for them, I will have neglected the rulings of Allah regarding them?The Shaykh: Look, may Allah bless you, I told you, the rulings of Allah are not neglected, nor excessive, nor deficient;Because he can say: It is not from the man, and if you touch something regarding him, nothing becomes upon him, but we want to observe the public interests, the public interests take precedence over the private interests.
So what do you think, may Allah reward you?
First, we say to this man: You have made a great mistake, and you have a share of the sin of this transgression; because you are the cause, and this is not permissible for him under any circumstances; because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade a man to be alone with a woman unless she is with a mahram, so what about the one who sleeps with her?Second: If the feared thing happens, what I see is that we should report it; because there is a benefit in this, which is that people will be cautious about hiring servants, and they will be cautious about leaving a male and a female alone,And if the issue were regarding the servants, we would say: Covering up is better, but this is for the public interest so that people will be cautious about hiring servants, which has become a fashion among fashions, and a boast among boasts, until a person hires a maid without need, or a driver without need,Until it was said to me: Some people have more servants than family members.
You find a house that has only a man and his wife and four servants, why? Perhaps people will reduce hiring servants.
The questioner: Is it obligatory to hand them over to the authorities?Answer: The issue of obligation is something else; because obligation means sin in leaving it.
We say: He informs the authorities for the benefit that I mentioned.
The questioner: Some people say: I fear that if I cover it up for them, I will have neglected the rulings of Allah regarding them?The Shaykh: Look, may Allah bless you, I told you, the rulings of Allah are not neglected, nor excessive, nor deficient;Because he can say: It is not from the man, and if you touch something regarding him, nothing becomes upon him, but we want to observe the public interests, the public interests take precedence over the private interests.