Explanation of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): “And undutifulness to parents.”

The Shaykh : Then he said (peace and blessings be upon him): .
We have explained this before, so we will not dwell at length on undutifulness to parents. Undutifulness to parents is well known to everyone; there is no difference in this between the uneducated and the educated, or between the knowledgeable and the ignorant, except in one aspect which I explained to you in a previous lesson. I am now giving a brief reminder of it so that we do not spend too much time on it. Undutifulness to parents is disobeying them in obedience to Allah (Mighty and Majestic). That is, if you do not have a father, and you are disobeying Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in a certain matter, and your father commands you regarding that matter in accordance with Allah’s command, and you disobey him, then in this disobedience you are undutiful to your parents; because you have combined two disobediences, or two sins: the sin against the Lord and the sin against the father. However, if your father commands you to do something that the Wise Lawgiver has not previously commanded you to do, then you are disobeying your father and not obeying him. You are a sinner, but you are not called undutiful; because undutifulness is the intensity of disobedience and the exaggeration in disobedience, and its form is that two disobediences are combined in you: disobedience to Allah and disobedience to one of the parents.
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