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What is the ruling regarding a woman being alone with one man in the workplace, and does the Hadith, "No man is alone with a woman but Shaytan is the third of them," apply to this situation?

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The forbidden seclusion (khalwa) is a man's meeting with a woman in a place where they are safe from a third person entering upon them. The presence of two men of righteousness and integrity lifts the prohibition of seclusion. The hadith permits the seclusion of two or three men with a foreign woman if they are a group from whom the occurrence of fornication is unlikely due to their righteousness or integrity.

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