Warning Against a Woman Traveling Without a Mahram and Mixing with Men in the Workplace
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The issue of the need for a woman to work in a specific place, Your Eminence, and the issue of her mahram. Perhaps Your Eminence has a perspective and advice on this. What do you say, if you would be so kind?
Answer: There is no doubt that this is a dangerous matter, and that women coming without mahrams involves danger and fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). So we advise our sisters in Allah to be cautious of this and not to proceed except with mahrams. We also advise them to be cautious of mixing with men and working with men, or being alone with men, such as being alone with a man who is not a mahram for her. All of this is something from which one must be cautious, whether it is in hospitals or elsewhere.
So my advice to everyone is that a woman should not proceed except with a mahram, and she should not travel except with a mahram, and she should not work among men, and she should not be alone with any man other than her mahrams; because it is a path to fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited that and made it haram (forbidden), and he said: A man should not be alone with a woman, for the third of them is Shaytan (Satan).
So the point of this is: that it is obligatory (wajib) for the woman and for her awliya (close friends of Allah) to be careful to preserve her honor and to stay away from the causes of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). As for work, there is no harm in her working among women as a nurse, a seamstress, a servant, or otherwise, in a permissible (mubah) job that does not harm her religion and does not cause fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) with men. And Allah is the One to be sought for help. Yes.
Answer: There is no doubt that this is a dangerous matter, and that women coming without mahrams involves danger and fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). So we advise our sisters in Allah to be cautious of this and not to proceed except with mahrams. We also advise them to be cautious of mixing with men and working with men, or being alone with men, such as being alone with a man who is not a mahram for her. All of this is something from which one must be cautious, whether it is in hospitals or elsewhere.
So my advice to everyone is that a woman should not proceed except with a mahram, and she should not travel except with a mahram, and she should not work among men, and she should not be alone with any man other than her mahrams; because it is a path to fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited that and made it haram (forbidden), and he said: A man should not be alone with a woman, for the third of them is Shaytan (Satan).
So the point of this is: that it is obligatory (wajib) for the woman and for her awliya (close friends of Allah) to be careful to preserve her honor and to stay away from the causes of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). As for work, there is no harm in her working among women as a nurse, a seamstress, a servant, or otherwise, in a permissible (mubah) job that does not harm her religion and does not cause fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) with men. And Allah is the One to be sought for help. Yes.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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