The Ruling on a Vow of Obedience and a Vow of Stubbornness

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: If a person makes a vow of obedience, is he given the choice between fulfilling the vow and paying the expiation?

Answer:
No, he is not given the choice; it is obligatory for him to fulfill the vow. Fulfilling the vow. As for the expiation, that is for a vow of stubbornness, a vow made in anger, or a vow that was not intended to be binding; in such cases, there is an expiation. Yes.

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.

Answer:
If a person makes a vow intending by it to affirm something, saying, for example, “This matter is true, and if it is, I will fast ten days,” this is on the same footing as an oath. It is on the same footing as an oath. Or if he says, “If I do not do such-and-such, or if I do such-and-such, I will fast ten days,” this is on the same footing as an oath. It is dissolved by the expiation for an oath, because the intention behind it was not to draw near to Allah, but to affirm or deny, meaning it is on the footing of an oath. Yes.