Traveling with a Smoking Father and the Right of the Parent
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Question:
Then he says, may Allah preserve you. He says: And if he asks me to travel with him, and he needs me, should I travel with him despite this action of his?
Answer:
There is no doubt that you travel with him. Even if your father were a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah), if he needs you to serve him, you serve him, or if he needs you to spend on him, you spend on him.[Luqman 31:15] Yes, the parent has a right, but you do not obey him in disobedience to Allah. As for obeying him in matters other than disobedience to Allah, in what benefits him, in money, in service, this is obligatory (wajib) upon you, even if he is a disbeliever. Yes.
Then he says, may Allah preserve you. He says: And if he asks me to travel with him, and he needs me, should I travel with him despite this action of his?
Answer:
There is no doubt that you travel with him. Even if your father were a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah), if he needs you to serve him, you serve him, or if he needs you to spend on him, you spend on him.
but accompany them in [this] world with appropriate kindness and follow the way of those who turn back to Me
وَصَاحِبْهُمَا فِي الدُّنْيَا مَعْرُوفًا وَاتَّبِعْ سَبِيلَ مَنْ أَنَابَ إِلَيَّ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 11 من 86 /شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/لذة القلب/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (57:25)
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