Working in a co-educational school with a threat from the father
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner from outside the country says: I work as an Arabic language teacher in a school with free mixing of men and women, and it includes curricula about the biographies of singers and others. My father threatens that he will not be pleased with me if I leave this job at this school because of the scarcity of jobs. What is your advice to me in this matter?
Answer:
Our advice isMishkat al-Masabih 3696 and even if he is his father, do not obey him in what is wrong. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner from outside the country says: I work as an Arabic language teacher in a school with free mixing of men and women, and it includes curricula about the biographies of singers and others. My father threatens that he will not be pleased with me if I leave this job at this school because of the scarcity of jobs. What is your advice to me in this matter?
Answer:
Our advice is
A creature is not to be obeyed when it involves disobedience to the "Creator.”
لا طاعة لمخلوق في معصية الخالق
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، تتمة فصل ثم جرى الأمر على السداد والاستقامة والأمة واحدة والدين واحد والمعبود واحد — islamhouse.com (59:09)
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