Question
Nowadays there seems to be valid reasons for women driving. The husbands are at work and there is no one to take the children to school and madrasah. Sometimes there is an important need which forces the women to attend to it. Therefore, they believe that it is necessary for them to learn to drive. Please comment on this argument.
Answer
It is haraam for women to drive. It is likewise haraam to utilize haraam means for accomplishing any halaal activities. Rizq may not be pursued in haraam ways. One cannot argue that it is necessary to engage in riba to earn one's rizq.
Dropping off the children at Madrasah, going shopping, visiting relatives, etc. may not be done in a haraam manner as these driving women are doing. Just as the man makes arrangements for his shop/business/employment, etc., so too he has to make arrangements for the needs of the family.
The arguments of the driving women who are shameless and audacious are not valid. Their niqaabs are an external facade to conceal the lewdness of the heart. If they had proper Imaani hayaa, they would not drive around like prostitutes.
Their arguments proffered in justification of the kabeerah sin of driving are baseless in terms of the Shariah. Millions and millions of men and women cannot drive, and millions do not own cars. Their needs are being fulfilled without indulgence in haraam. All of these arguments to halaalize sin are shaitaani deceptions.
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- The Majlis Vol 23 No 04
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