Is it permissible for a son to completely cut off ties with his parents and not speak to them because they are doing something forbidden and contrary to the Shari'ah, and is it permissible for them to be angry with him?

The Shaykh : The questioner asks: Is it permissible for a son to completely cut off ties with his parents and not speak to them because they are doing something forbidden and contrary to the Shari'ah, and is it permissible for them to be angry with him? The last question—whether it is permissible for them to be angry with him—depends on the answer to the first question. If the answer to the first question is that his action is permissible, then their anger is not permissible, meaning it is not valid or effective. But if the answer, as you will hear, is that it is not permissible for a son to cut off ties with his father, then if the father is angry in the case of the son cutting off ties with him, his anger at that time is permissible and valid, because the son is violating the Shari'ah. To elaborate on this summary: Our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, says in the clear text of the Noble Qur'an: So our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, commanded the son in this Noble verse to treat his father with good companionship, even if they both strive to make him disbelieve in his religion, just as they disbelieved. Our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, did not give the son permission in this case, where his father wants to force him into disbelief and misguidance, to cut off ties with him; rather, He commanded him to treat him with good companionship. Likewise, there is no difference between the father and the mother, and therefore Allah the Exalted said: We all know that shirk (associating partners with Allah), as mentioned in the hadith of Abdullah ibn Mas'ud and others, is the greatest of major sins. So if the parents are polytheists—and not only that, but they also force their son to associate partners with their Lord, just as they do—our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, commands the son to treat his parents with good companionship as long as they are alive. If this is the obligation prescribed by the Shari'ah for the son toward polytheist parents who force him into shirk, then whatever the matter may be that this Muslim father, this Muslim parent, is committing from among the forbidden things, as the questioner asks, it is less than shirk, first because shirk is the greatest of major sins, as we mentioned. Then, this father does not force his son to disobey his Lord as he disobeys his Lord. Yes, this is lighter than that father or those polytheist parents who want to force their son into shirk. And yet, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says: This means that if a father is found forcing his son to disobey... this coercion, the whole matter is that this father is committing a forbidden act contrary to the Shari'ah. Is it permissible for the son to cut off ties with him? The answer is no; rather, he must treat them with good companionship in this world. And part of the good companionship that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, commanded the son to have in this Noble verse is to admonish them: And the advice of Ibrahim (peace be upon him) to his father Azar in many verses of the Qur'an, where he advised him not to worship trees and stones and the like. So treating the parents with good companionship in this world always entails—and peace be upon you, and Allah's mercy and blessings—that he remind them of what is obligatory upon them, namely the taqwa (mindfulness of Allah) of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, and obedience to Him. Therefore, cutting off ties here is not permissible; rather, the obligation is to maintain the relationship. This is confirmed by a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari that Asma bint Abi Bakr's mother came to visit her, and Asma's mother was a polytheist. She sought permission from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), or she asked the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) if he would allow her to visit her. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) agreed to this visit and encouraged her to maintain the relationship with her, even though she was a polytheist mother. In summary, it is not permissible for a righteous son, if he is afflicted with unrighteous parents, to get rid of them by cutting off ties with them. Rather, he must continue to serve them throughout their lives and advise them from time to time, so that perhaps Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will guide them. As for cutting off ties here, it is undutifulness to parents ('uquq). And consequently, it is feared that their supplication against him will be answered, because the supplication of a parent against a child is answered if the other known conditions are met. There are many questions here, the first of which is...