What is the ruling on traveling without the permission of one's parents if the son is being persecuted by the government?
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The questioner : Well, my Shaykh, you do not go out.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : I mean, he does not go out of his country without the permission of his father or his mother; even if he is being religiously persecuted in his country? We say that he is being religiously persecuted in his country.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you, this has been answered before; we are speaking about it. As for the examples, they multiply and vary. You are saying now that he is being persecuted; what is the type of persecution?
The questioner : Religious.
The Shaykh : Allow me to say that the word "religious" is broad; has the persecution, for example, reached the point where the unjust, oppressive ruler prevents him from praying with the congregation of the Muslims? That is the previous example?
The questioner: No.
The Shaykh : No. So what is the type of persecution? It varies. If the type of persecution is that he is prevented from performing an individual obligation, then he is told: migrate. And if he does not migrate, he is told:[An-Nisa 4:97]. The matter varies from one case to another. The rule and the criterion is what I mentioned earlier: if he is prevented from an obligation, there is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator; if he is prevented from something less than that, the matter is easy in that regard.
Today we find—praise be to Allah—a new generation that grew up differently from their fathers and grandfathers. They grew up with some awareness and correct Islamic culture. You find the young man in the beginning of his youth growing his beard, while his father has reached old age and is shaven. They are two opposites that do not coexist. His father orders him to do his work, to shave his beard, because that is how this father lived. There is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator. The son wants to go out in the morning to pray in the mosque, but his father prevents him. He is not to be obeyed in this, ever. And so on, according to the details mentioned earlier; something requires obedience and something does not require obedience.
The questioner : Well, my Shaykh, I mean.
The Shaykh : Your friend went bankrupt.
Another questioner : No, he is shy.
The Shaykh : Oh? Shy, yes. "May Allah have mercy on the women of the Ansar; their modesty did not prevent them from becoming learned in the religion."
The questioner : No, he is not shy. I do not want to burden you.
The Shaykh : It burdens me? I am coming to lighten it.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : I mean, he does not go out of his country without the permission of his father or his mother; even if he is being religiously persecuted in his country? We say that he is being religiously persecuted in his country.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you, this has been answered before; we are speaking about it. As for the examples, they multiply and vary. You are saying now that he is being persecuted; what is the type of persecution?
The questioner : Religious.
The Shaykh : Allow me to say that the word "religious" is broad; has the persecution, for example, reached the point where the unjust, oppressive ruler prevents him from praying with the congregation of the Muslims? That is the previous example?
The questioner: No.
The Shaykh : No. So what is the type of persecution? It varies. If the type of persecution is that he is prevented from performing an individual obligation, then he is told: migrate. And if he does not migrate, he is told:
Was not the earth of Allah spacious [enough] for you to emigrate therein?
أَلَمْ تَكُنْ أَرْضُ اللَّهِ وَاسِعَةً فَتُهَاجِرُوا فِيهَاToday we find—praise be to Allah—a new generation that grew up differently from their fathers and grandfathers. They grew up with some awareness and correct Islamic culture. You find the young man in the beginning of his youth growing his beard, while his father has reached old age and is shaven. They are two opposites that do not coexist. His father orders him to do his work, to shave his beard, because that is how this father lived. There is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator. The son wants to go out in the morning to pray in the mosque, but his father prevents him. He is not to be obeyed in this, ever. And so on, according to the details mentioned earlier; something requires obedience and something does not require obedience.
The questioner : Well, my Shaykh, I mean.
The Shaykh : Your friend went bankrupt.
Another questioner : No, he is shy.
The Shaykh : Oh? Shy, yes. "May Allah have mercy on the women of the Ansar; their modesty did not prevent them from becoming learned in the religion."
The questioner : No, he is not shy. I do not want to burden you.
The Shaykh : It burdens me? I am coming to lighten it.
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