Is it permissible to obey the parents who tell you not to do nafilah worship?
- Obedience to Allah is superior to obedience to parents? If your parents tell you not to do nafilah worship, is it permissible to obey them?
Dear Brother / Sister,
If a person is against any deed of nafilah worship and says to you, “do not perform that deed of worship”, you cannot obey that person even if it is one of your parents.
In other cases, obedience to parents takes precedence over performing nafilah prayers. (Ibn Abidin, Raddul-Muhtar, 2/504)
The evidence for that decree is the story of Jurayj. It was informed by the Prophet (pbuh) that a person called Jurayj, who lived at the time of the previous ummahs, did not answer his mother who called him while he was performing a nafilah prayer, that he was cursed by his mother and that he got into some trouble. (see Muslim, Birr, 7, 8)
Questions on Islam
- Are the deeds of worship of a person whose parents are not pleased with him accepted?
- Is the statement ‘He who utters salawat for me gets as many thawabs as the Mount Uhud” a hadith?
- What should we do to tell people about supererogatory (nafilah) deeds of worship?
- Why does Allah want us to pray for our parents?
- Will you give information about the arrangement of the deeds of worshipping in terms of wisdom and taabbud?
- What exactly is the decree on the rights of parents?
- Will you explain the following verse: "But those who reject faith after they accepted it, and then go on adding to their defiance of faith,―never will their repentance be accepted; for they are those who have gone astray." (Aali Imran, 3/90)
- How did the families react to the believers in the Era of Bliss?
- "Paradise is under the feet of mothers." Is this hadith valid for all mothers?
- Can a woman perform nafilah prayers without getting permission from her husband? Can a woman perform fasting without getting permission from her husband?
