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1) If the enemy is inside his country, he is not gathering around borders, there is no<br />
effect on the Muslim country, and borders are full of soldiers, then jihad in such a<br />
situation is only Fard Kifaya, and permission is required. This is because obedience to<br />
parents and husband is Fard Ayn and jihad is merely Fard Kifaya. Fard Ayn is<br />
advanced over Fard Kifaya.<br />
2) If the enemy attack a Muslim border or enter any Islamic land, then as we mentioned<br />
before, jihad becomes Fard Ayn upon the entire population of the country and all<br />
around it. In this situation permission is not required. There is no permission for<br />
anyone from the other, even the child goes out without the permission of his parents,<br />
the wife without the permission of her husband, and the debtor without the permission<br />
of his creditor.<br />
The situation of the permission from parents and husband not being required is<br />
sustained until the enemy is expelled from the Muslim land, or when there is the<br />
accumulation of sufficient numbers to expel the enemy even if all the Muslims in the<br />
earth are assembled.<br />
Jihad, when it is Fard Ayn, takes precedence over the obedience to parents, which<br />
is also Fard Ayn. Because, jihad is the protection of the religion, and obedience to<br />
parents, is caring for the individual. That is, jihad (with the parents grief and distress it<br />
may entail) is protection of the religion which has priority over the protection of the<br />
individual. Moreover, Jihad itself is the destruction of the mujahid's self if he is martyred.<br />
In which case the protection of the religion is assured. While it is not certain that one's<br />
parents would be distressed. The certain takes precedence over the uncertain.<br />
An Example of Fard Ayn and Fard Kifaya<br />
For instance, some people are walking along the sea shore and amongst them is a<br />
group of good swimmers. They see a child about to drown. It shouts "save me!", and<br />
nobody moves towards him. One of the swimmers wants to move to save him but his<br />
father forbids him. Can any scholar in this day and time say that he must obey his father<br />
and let the child drown?<br />
This is the example of Afghanistan today. She is crying out for help, her children<br />
are being slaughtered, her women are being raped, the innocent are killed and their<br />
corpses scattered, and when sincere young men want to move to save and assist them they<br />
are criticized and blamed: "how could you leave without your parents' permission?"