Is jihad in Afghanistan an individual obligation, and what is the effect of a parent’s prohibition?

The questioner : The questioner asks: Is jihad in Afghanistan an individual obligation for every Muslim? And what is the ruling if my father does not agree to it?

The Shaykh : Jihad in the path of Allah in Afghanistan and elsewhere is a collective obligation. Every collective obligation has conditions; if the conditions are met, it becomes obligatory, and if they are not met, it is not obligatory. If your father is preventing you because the conditions are not met and the matter is not right for you, then it is obligatory for you to obey him. However, if the conditions for its existence are present in your case, there is no obedience to a creation in disobedience to the Creator. If the father or mother prevents a person from an obligatory matter, it is not permissible to obey them, because obedience to other than Allah is conditioned by not contradicting obedience to Allah.