Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. May peace be upon His servant and Messenger, Muhammad (peace be upon him), his family, Companions, and their followers until the Day of Judgment.

I read the news published in the local papers dated 1/9/ 1400 A.H. about the decision the Civil Service Bureau in the Eastern Province made to employ women in governmental departments as translators and clerical workers. I also read the comment of brother Muhammad Ahmad Hassany in Al Nadwa Newspaper, dated 8/9/1400 A.H. His article was sincere advice truthfully given to the Muslims. May Allah reward and bless him. It is well known that female participation in work leads to blameworthy mixing between the two sexes. This is a very serious matter that leads to bitter consequences and goes against the texts of Islam that command women to stay at home and care for household affairs away from mixing with men. The authentic evidence clearly indicates that it is forbidden to be alone with a non­mahram woman or to look at them. It forbids the means to falling into what Allah forbids. There are so many legal indications that definitively prohibit all kinds of intermixing of the two sexes that may lead to bad consequences.