I read your fatwa concerning requiring permission of our parents to go to jamaat. You said that this is not necessary if they are stopping us because of a misguided reason, such as believing that it would take us away from our studies. But is it not true that in the time of the Prophet (pbuh) a man asked him permission to go for jihad even though his parents refused. And as far as I know the Prophet (pbuh) denied him permission because his parents didn’t approve. Is this story true, and if so then isn’t jamaat a form of jihad. Allah knows best.
During the time of the prophet peace be upon him when people used to go for war they used to seek their parents permission, which was different, then the modern-day seeking of permission of parents to go in jamat. And they both had different reasons. In our times, there is a shortage of knowledge, understanding, desire and motivation to practice upon deen. And all of these things are mandatory to have, so in order to go out in the path of Allah to learn deen, which is mandatory, one is not obliged to listen to one’s parents. This is when the parents stop their children from going out for no good reason. The answer is that if you feel like you need to go then you should go.
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