The Danger of Sending Students Abroad

Question:
Many of our sons who are sent abroad live with Christian families, on the pretext that they will learn the English language from them. However, at the same time, they eat pork with them, drink intoxicants with them, commit adultery in their homes, and abandon the prayer deliberately. They then return empty-handed, with no prayer, but rather as enemies of the religion, waging war against Islam. What is the position of the government and its distinguished scholars regarding this great danger?

Answer:
This is the reality for some of them. Therefore, the scholars advise against sending students abroad, and the state has promised not to send anyone abroad except out of dire necessity.
It is obligatory that this order be implemented, and that no one be sent abroad except for dire necessity in rare cases, and for extreme matters where no one exists to teach them. No one should be sent except one who is known for uprightness, religion, knowledge, guidance, and righteousness, in a specific manner.
These people to whom the questioner referred stay with disbelievers and participate in their food and drink. There is no doubt that they are a danger to the Muslims, and their evil is great. If they return and take on positions, they will bring about great evil, without a doubt.
It is obligatory that these people be prevented, and that they not mix with disbelievers. If they travel to learn, they should be alone, monitored, and kept separate, away from mingling with disbelievers. They should learn the language they want through teachers, not through women, young girls, and corrupters on earth. No, the one who goes to learn should mix with the teachers, with male teachers, and take knowledge from them. He should take from his male colleagues and benefit from them, not from women in the houses, where a woman comes to him with her adornment and her lewdness, and he commits a sin with her. This is a great trial.
The point is that many of these students, or the majority of them, are characterized by evil and corruption when they go there, and the few of them who are saved and sound are the exception.
It is obligatory upon the rulers, as they have been informed and as they know it—may Allah guide them—it is obligatory upon them, again and again, not to send students abroad, and that no one be sent abroad except when dire necessity calls for sending him in rare, few matters where they have not found anyone to teach them here. It is necessary that someone be found to teach them here. But if dire necessity calls for it, let it be for a very few, and let it be for people known for righteousness, uprightness, goodness, and sound judgment. And let there also be monitors over them from among their own kind, who are good, righteous, and upright, so that safety may be achieved, or at least the majority of it.

Question: Does the father have nothing to do if he goes?

Answer: The father is responsible for his effort in this matter. The father, and other than the father, the father and the brothers, help in preventing this, and they should exert their utmost effort in not sending students abroad.