The Ruling on Being Alone with a Female Servant or a Nanny and Looking at Them
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Question:
A man is afflicted with a female servant, and likewise a nanny, and he is lax in looking at her. Also, for example, she serves them food and attends to them, and sometimes she is alone in the house with a mahram (a relative one may not marry). The mother, for example, is a teacher or something similar, and he is alone with her. What is your opinion?
Answer:
It is obligatory for him to lower his gaze, and to order her to observe hijab (the covering prescribed for women) and to avoid being alone with him. All of this must be observed. And the woman should sit in her house and not go to her work, leaving him alone with the woman. Or there should be two of them so that it does not become seclusion. Otherwise, she should sit. Teaching is not required. She should keep her house and her children and leave teaching.
Q: Also, being lax in looking at her. He says, for example: "Is she just a servant?"
A: Even so, even so. He may desire her. Every fallen thing is picked up. Even an old woman may be desired. For this reason, He (Exalted and Majestic is He) said regarding old women:[An-Nur 24:60] and they are old women [al-Nur:60].
A man is afflicted with a female servant, and likewise a nanny, and he is lax in looking at her. Also, for example, she serves them food and attends to them, and sometimes she is alone in the house with a mahram (a relative one may not marry). The mother, for example, is a teacher or something similar, and he is alone with her. What is your opinion?
Answer:
It is obligatory for him to lower his gaze, and to order her to observe hijab (the covering prescribed for women) and to avoid being alone with him. All of this must be observed. And the woman should sit in her house and not go to her work, leaving him alone with the woman. Or there should be two of them so that it does not become seclusion. Otherwise, she should sit. Teaching is not required. She should keep her house and her children and leave teaching.
Q: Also, being lax in looking at her. He says, for example: "Is she just a servant?"
A: Even so, even so. He may desire her. Every fallen thing is picked up. Even an old woman may be desired. For this reason, He (Exalted and Majestic is He) said regarding old women:
And women of post-menstrual age who have no desire for marriage - there is no blame upon them for putting aside their outer garments [but] not displaying adornment. But to modestly refrain [from that] is better for them
وَالْقَوَاعِدُ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ اللَّاتِي لَا يَرْجُونَ نِكَاحًا فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْهِنَّ جُنَاحٌ أَنْ يَضَعْنَ ثِيَابَهُنَّ غَيْرَ مُتَبَرِّجَاتٍ بِزِينَةٍ وَأَنْ يَسْتَعْفِفْنَ خَيْرٌ لَهُنَّ
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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