Some female students or teachers move from one city to another for study, for example to 'Unayzah or Buraydah, and they have a driver with them without a mahram, and sometimes they travel to
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The questioner : Now, there are some female teachers or students who move from one city, for example, for study or teaching, from a city like 'Unayzah to Buraydah or vice versa, and they have a driver who transports them, but this driver does not have a mahram with him, and sometimes the travel is to a distant region. So what is the ruling for this woman? And what is the ruling regarding the driver's salary?
The Shaykh : What is the ruling on what?
The questioner : The salary that the driver takes, or...
The Shaykh : We see that the travel of female teachers to teach in a region and return on the same day is not considered travel, because they do not prepare for it as one prepares for travel, nor do they bid farewell when departing, nor do they greet upon returning. And if it is not travel, then there is no harm in women traveling with a driver without a mahram, provided that he is trustworthy, and another condition is 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. Yes.
As for his salary or the reward he takes, there is no harm in it, because it is a wage for permissible work.
The questioner : Even if the education administration, for example, stipulates...
The Shaykh : Even if...
The questioner : Even if the education administration stipulates...
The Shaykh : The education administration stipulates that...
The questioner : That he have a mahram with him?
The Shaykh : If the Ministry of Education stipulates that they have a mahram with them, then they must fulfill this condition if they have committed to it. Yes.
The Shaykh : What is the ruling on what?
The questioner : The salary that the driver takes, or...
The Shaykh : We see that the travel of female teachers to teach in a region and return on the same day is not considered travel, because they do not prepare for it as one prepares for travel, nor do they bid farewell when departing, nor do they greet upon returning. And if it is not travel, then there is no harm in women traveling with a driver without a mahram, provided that he is trustworthy, and another condition is 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. Yes.
As for his salary or the reward he takes, there is no harm in it, because it is a wage for permissible work.
The questioner : Even if the education administration, for example, stipulates...
The Shaykh : Even if...
The questioner : Even if the education administration stipulates...
The Shaykh : The education administration stipulates that...
The questioner : That he have a mahram with him?
The Shaykh : If the Ministry of Education stipulates that they have a mahram with them, then they must fulfill this condition if they have committed to it. Yes.