Discussion of the issue of obeying the leader during travel.

The questioner : Our Shaykh Abu Islam asks a question and receives the answer, which is about prayer during travel.

The Shaykh : Yes, regarding travel,

The questioner : Yes, travel and

The Shaykh : Are you a group, if Allah wills?

The questioner : Yes, a bus trip for students of knowledge, all of them, if Allah wills.

The Shaykh : In a bus?

The questioner : Yes. Obedience

The Shaykh : In my opinion, it will be a case of achieving what is already achieved, given that you are with them, for them to appoint a leader over them; because the leader is present—may Allah have mercy on him, he laughs—but what truly needs to be pointed out is that this leadership is temporary, first and second, it does not require the conditions required in the greater leadership and the supreme authority. That is to say, it is not befitting to take a pledge from the commanded that they must obey their leader in ease and hardship, and in what? In the easy and the difficult. No, this is not a condition except in the supreme authority. But this is a matter of organizing the trip, especially if it is to the Sacred House of Allah, so one of them must be appointed as leader if there is no leader, due to his saying (peace be upon him): And this is undoubtedly a matter of the perfection of Islam; because Islam rejects chaos even in this short, brief companionship, which is a journey on the road. This is what I draw attention to: it is obligatory that there be a leader who organizes their trip, who orders them to stop where he sees stopping is best, and orders them to depart where he sees departure is better for them, and so on. He organizes their affairs. So, within the limits of this benefit, they should respond to that leader. Another aspect relates to the person of the leader, and although this is also, I hope, a matter of achieving what is already achieved, which is that he should consult them and not act independently of their opinion and without them, but rather as the Exalted said: So he consults them and then executes what his opinion concludes, and the others must obey him.