Halaal Food Vendors

From the outset, the Quraan Majeed explicitly and categorically commands females to remain within the home. Hence, they should not emerge except due to necessity. A necessity refers to such a need that, if it is not fulfilled one will be harmed, such as going out to purchase food items if no other person is available to attend to it.

Now coming to your query, it is not permissible for one (especially a woman) to have a pop up business in such a place where there is music in the background or alcohol, as they maybe alternative venues that are void of the above-mentioned vices.

Furthermore, the marketplace is generally a place of Fitnah and perhaps many roamers are there with evil intentions, hence, a single conversation with the opposite gender is sufficient to destroy an entire home. Also, when male shopkeepers attend to male customers, then the transaction is concluded within a few minutes, while male customers prolong their conversations and discussions with females (and vice versa), as the Nafs derives enjoyment from such conversations. During the pop-up, a female will also have to perform Wudhu and Salaah at its fixed time and since sufficient privacy is not found, she will be exposing herself before males during Wudhu and Salaah.

Yes, if she is required to earn a livelihood as no one is prepared to support her, then she may sell items from her home. She may also prepare the items which she intends selling and have them dropped off (by some Mahram) at stores that are willing to market it for her. In this way, she will be remaining within her home as required by Shari’ah and earning a livelihood. In conclusion, a female should always remain within the confines of her home as required by Shari’ah.

Sadly, the gravest plight today is that one is willing to destroy his/her Aakhirah in the process of acquiring Dunya but how many of us have dented our Dunya to earn our Aakhirah?

Also consider the following Hadith:

Hadrat Abdullah bin Mas’ood Radiallahu Anhu reports that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, “A woman should be concealed (from strange men). When she leaves her home, Shaytaan looks at her. The time that she is closest to her Rabb is when she is within the confines of her home.”