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Fatwa CenterIs Transporting a Female Worker Considered Prohibited Seclusion?
Question
Asalamaleykum. For transportation contract job with a company, main customers are three men but incase i’m ordered to transport a woman colleague which causes seclusion. Will I avoid seclusion by video calling mahrams so we’ll be monitored while in the car until non mahram gets out of the car?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
What seems to be more correct is that it is not considered prohibited seclusion (khalwah muḥarramah) for a woman to ride with a non-maḥram man in a car on well-traveled roads where people do not cease to pass by—especially during daylight—and where there is safety from temptation. Maintaining contact with the woman’s family during the journey through a visible (video) call, which distances the causes of temptation, is also a good precaution.
Some scholars have stated that the criterion for forbidden seclusion is any situation of being alone together in which suspicion or impropriety is customarily feared; whereas if it is definitively known, according to customary practice, that such suspicion is absent, then it is not considered seclusion.
As for cases where transporting a female occurs on deserted roads, outside cities, at night, or in similar circumstances that may serve as a means to wrongdoing, such situations should be avoided.
Based on what has been mentioned, it is permissible for you to work with the company in transporting its workers. If you are asked to transport a female worker, you should observe what has been mentioned at the beginning of this ruling, keeping away from causes of temptation and blocking the avenues of Shayṭān.
May Allah grant us and you success in what He loves and is pleased with.
Allah knows best.
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