What is your advice to one who hires a driver who may be a fool and is not a mahram to transport his daughters to school?
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The questioner : May Allah reward the honorableThe Shaykh : In these days, I mean every school year, some guardians, or some teachers, contract with a car driver to transport the teachers or to transport the girls from home to school. But several things are observed regarding this: either the driver is a fool in his appearance, unmarried, and we find that his appearance is one of looseness, and we also find that he has no mahram. So what is your advice regarding this beginning that we start with this school year? May Allah guide you.
The Shaykh : My advice is that it is not permissible for a person to hire a man like this for his mahrams, such as daughters, sisters, and wives, because this is dangerous for them. He is, as the questioner described, a young man who does not have a wife who would be a mahram between him and the women. Then, his appearance is one of looseness. So it is not permissible to hire a man like this. And the girls' education administration in the country should observe such matters and prevent the hiring of a man like this, because protecting the honor is more important than anything. A man like this is tempted by himself and tempts other women, and perhaps he has tapes of love songs and flirtation with him, which stirs up the hidden desires of souls. And I repeat that it is obligatory for the education administration in the region to observe this and prevent the hiring of such people.
And here is another issue: if the man is trustworthy and reliable, he sometimes carries one woman, either at the beginning of the journey or at the end. At the beginning, he comes to the woman and she rides with him until he reaches the other women, or at the end, one woman remains with him and he takes her to her house. This is also haram, not permissible. It is not permissible for the driver to be alone with a woman, no matter how chaste and intelligent he is, because Satan flows through the son of Adam like blood. The matter is serious, and the most severe and harmful trial for men is the trial of women.
The Shaykh : My advice is that it is not permissible for a person to hire a man like this for his mahrams, such as daughters, sisters, and wives, because this is dangerous for them. He is, as the questioner described, a young man who does not have a wife who would be a mahram between him and the women. Then, his appearance is one of looseness. So it is not permissible to hire a man like this. And the girls' education administration in the country should observe such matters and prevent the hiring of a man like this, because protecting the honor is more important than anything. A man like this is tempted by himself and tempts other women, and perhaps he has tapes of love songs and flirtation with him, which stirs up the hidden desires of souls. And I repeat that it is obligatory for the education administration in the region to observe this and prevent the hiring of such people.
And here is another issue: if the man is trustworthy and reliable, he sometimes carries one woman, either at the beginning of the journey or at the end. At the beginning, he comes to the woman and she rides with him until he reaches the other women, or at the end, one woman remains with him and he takes her to her house. This is also haram, not permissible. It is not permissible for the driver to be alone with a woman, no matter how chaste and intelligent he is, because Satan flows through the son of Adam like blood. The matter is serious, and the most severe and harmful trial for men is the trial of women.