Is the one in authority in the same position as the parents regarding permission for jihad?

Question:
Regarding the one in authority, I say that Your Eminence the Shaykh restricted permission for jihad in Afghanistan to the parents. Does Your Eminence not see that the one in authority, if he is upholding the religion of Allah and calling to it, has the right to give permission, considering that his status is not less than that of the parents?

Answer:
He stated to us that jihad is not permissible except with the permission of the one in authority, unless an enemy they fear the cost of danger suddenly attacks them. I do not know that those matters prevent anyone from being repelled from it, or that they prevented anyone who wanted to jihad with his wealth or his life. They collect public money from the people and from their wealth to support the mujahideen, and I do not know that they, may Allah preserve them, prevented anyone from that. If they see that preventing it is in the interest of a legitimate Shari'ah benefit, they do not permit it except with their permission, as the scholars of knowledge have explicitly stated. We ask Allah for success for everyone.