The Ruling on Parents Preventing Their Children from Keeping Company with the Righteous

Question:
I am a man whom Allah has guided to the truth, and praise be to Allah, but I find difficulty at home. My family orders me to leave my brothers in Allah, and they say: "These are like the misguided group." They prevent me from doing good, and they prevent me from the prayer after which there is sometimes a session for reading a book or something similar. They do not listen to me because I am earnest, and they treat me like a child. They do not allow listening to religious tapes, and they say: "This is misguided," and so on?

Answer:
In any case, my son, you must do what you can to please your parents and consider their feelings, and address your family with kind words and a good manner. However, you are not required to obey them in what harms you, or in disobedience to your Lord, such as what you mentioned.
Go out to seek knowledge, and go out to pray in congregation, but with a good manner and kind words. Listen to good tapes, and encourage them—encourage your parents, your siblings, and your relatives—to listen to what benefits them, with kind words and a good manner, not with violence, harshness, or arrogance toward them, but with kind words and a good manner; so that you may come out of your parents' anger, and so that you may fulfill what Allah has made obligatory upon you.