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What is your advice to a young man who wants to travel to study and work in Britain, with his father's approval, but his mother refuses, fearing for him from religious deviation, while his father insists on him traveling and his mother pleads for him to stay?

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If obeying one's parents leads to a conflict where both cannot be obeyed, and it is not a matter of disobedience to God, then the mother's obedience takes precedence over the father's, according to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "Your mother, then your mother, then your mother, then your father." What further supports prioritizing the mother's request in this matter is that traveling to non-Muslim countries is not permissible except out of necessity.

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