What is the ruling on a maid traveling with a non-mahram, and what is your opinion of one who employs a group specifically for maids to perform Hajj with them, while he is not one of their mahrams?
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The questioner : May Allah reward the honorableThe Shaykh : What is the ruling on a maid traveling with a man who is not her mahram, and what is your opinion of one who employs a group specifically for maids to perform Hajj with them, while he is not one of their mahrams and there is no guarantor or mahram with her? What is your opinion of this?
The Shaykh : Our view, as you have heard the hadith from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), is that it is not permissible for a woman to travel without a mahram, and it is not for us to depart from the saying of Allah and His Messenger, no matter what the matter is. However, if the maid is in the house and there is no mahram with her, and people are compelled to travel with her because no one is left in the house, then at that time it is permitted for her to travel with him, because this is a dire necessity, and her remaining in the house alone is more harmful and more dangerous than if she traveled with him. If someone asks, why do we not tell him to give her to your relatives or friends until she returns? We say the same thing: perhaps if you gave her to my relatives or friends, my heart might be troubled about what happened to this woman, and the person would remain uneasy. So this matter is permissible in one case, which is when people have a maid with them and it is not possible to leave her alone in the house; here she travels with him, and. I say this while seeking forgiveness from Allah and repenting to Him. Yes, brother 'Abd al-Rahman says the time has ended. Yes, the group is even more impermissible; it is even more impermissible that it is not allowed. But unfortunately, people have been lax in this matter and have come to leave these women as if they were sheep with a shepherd, knowing nothing about them, and the danger of the driver who takes charge of driving the car—we ask Allah for safety.
The questioner : May Allah reward our Shaykh for these words and place them in the scales of his good deeds on the day he meets Him, and may Allah send prayers and blessings and peace upon His servant and Messenger Muhammad.
The Shaykh : Our view, as you have heard the hadith from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), is that it is not permissible for a woman to travel without a mahram, and it is not for us to depart from the saying of Allah and His Messenger, no matter what the matter is. However, if the maid is in the house and there is no mahram with her, and people are compelled to travel with her because no one is left in the house, then at that time it is permitted for her to travel with him, because this is a dire necessity, and her remaining in the house alone is more harmful and more dangerous than if she traveled with him. If someone asks, why do we not tell him to give her to your relatives or friends until she returns? We say the same thing: perhaps if you gave her to my relatives or friends, my heart might be troubled about what happened to this woman, and the person would remain uneasy. So this matter is permissible in one case, which is when people have a maid with them and it is not possible to leave her alone in the house; here she travels with him, and
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...The questioner : May Allah reward our Shaykh for these words and place them in the scales of his good deeds on the day he meets Him, and may Allah send prayers and blessings and peace upon His servant and Messenger Muhammad.