She wants to set up her own business to encourage women to work
Question I am a muslimwoman from the Netherlands. Nowadays the government is forcing woman to work outside their homes if they are payed with governmentmoney. I want to start my own business to motivate these muslimwoman and help them to start their own business instead of working in regular companies.Then at least they will be…
Question
Praise be to Allah.
If the business
will do permissible work, and will not be accompanied by anything haraam
such as taking a riba-based loan or free mixing, then there is nothing wrong
with that. If there is the hope that it will motivate Muslim women to start
their own businesses so that they will not have to go out and mix (with
men), then this is beneficial work and we hope that you will be rewarded by
Allaah for it.
See question no.
22397 for guidelines on
women’s work.
In a fatwa issued
by the Standing Committee for Issuing Fatwas (13/16) it says: What is the
ruling on a woman working as a businesswoman, whether she travels or stays
at home?
Answer:
The basic principle is that
it is permissible for both men and woman to earn money and do business when
travelling and staying at home, because of the general meaning of the words
of Allaah (interpretation of the meaning): “Allaah has permitted trading
and forbidden Riba” [al-Baqarah 2:275] and the words of the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) when he was asked, What
earning is best? He said: “That which a man earns with his own hands, and
every transaction is blessed.” And it is proven that the early Muslim women
used to buy and sell with modesty and they avoided showing their beauty. But
if a woman’s doing business means that she will expose her beauty such as
the face that Allaah has forbidden her to show, or to her travelling without
a mahram, or mixing with non-mahram men in a way that it is feared will lead
to fitnah, then it is not permissible for her to do that, rather she should
refrain from that, because if the haraam thing that she has to do in order
to obtain something permissble. End quote.
We ask Allaah to help and
guide you and to reward you for your intentions and your actions.
And Allaah knows best.
