Balancing dutifulness to one's mother with continuing one's studies away from her
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I have a mother, and by the grace of Allah, I am dutiful to her and do everything she wants. She says, "I wish my mother were still alive so I could treat her with the same obedience and kindness that you show me." He says: After a while, I received an acceptance letter from Imam University in Riyadh, and my family lives a thousand kilometers away from Riyadh, so I left my mother. Should I go back to her? Knowing that she says, "Your studies are obedience to me and kindness to me," and my brothers there do not obey her as they should, and she suffers because of them, what do you advise me to do? Should I continue my studies or go back to her?
Answer:
As long as she has permitted you to do this, praise be to Allah, you study. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I have a mother, and by the grace of Allah, I am dutiful to her and do everything she wants. She says, "I wish my mother were still alive so I could treat her with the same obedience and kindness that you show me." He says: After a while, I received an acceptance letter from Imam University in Riyadh, and my family lives a thousand kilometers away from Riyadh, so I left my mother. Should I go back to her? Knowing that she says, "Your studies are obedience to me and kindness to me," and my brothers there do not obey her as they should, and she suffers because of them, what do you advise me to do? Should I continue my studies or go back to her?
Answer:
As long as she has permitted you to do this, praise be to Allah, you study. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 17 من 86 /شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/أدران القلب/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (51:13)
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