This study is intended to examine the practice of iddah by women who are abandoned by their husbands in Besuki District, Situbondo Regency, East Java, from the perspective of Jasser Auda's maqashid sharia. They continued to go out of their homes to work when sharia required them to observe the iddah for four months and ten days in the form of not traveling from home after their husbands died. However, it was precisely because of the reason for the death of the husband that the widows left home to work and earn income to support their children. This type of research is juridical-empirical. Primary data sources were obtained by interviewing religious leaders, residents, and widows whose husbands died. By using Jasser Auda's maqashid sharia theory, this study concludes that women who are undergoing the iddah of the death of their husbands are forbidden to marry, but they are still allowed to work outside the home to provide for their lives and provide for their children.