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As a parent, if you were my son today talking to me this way,

I would tell you, look, do yourself a favor.

Do yourself a favor.

Don't drop out of your studies, but you can do on the side, you can do whatever you makes you happy, whatever you feel, you know, you'd like to see.

And in shawlma, I want to just say one more thing.

We see our brothers and sisters struggle across the globe. It's our duty to do whatever we can

to help them on condition that whatever we do doesn't make the matter worse

That condition a lot of people don't really think about it. They just do anything and everything and sometimes they make matters worse.

So we need to remember while doing something that would be helping them, we shouldn't do something that would make matters worse, right?

It's my duty. I don't want you to drop out completely from your studies simply because you want to help here.

But I hear what you're saying and I feel it and I don't want you to leave this either.

So I want you to continue with your studies.

It's just a few years.

Agreed. If you start slowly sewing the seeds of this

Allah might grant it development before you finish or when you are done you may want to now close

that chapter and come and concentrate on this or by that time you may have

a different idea in your mind that might be more beneficial

Do you get my point? So in-shala, make it easy for you. I hope that you don't drop out

your studies, like you say, your parents are important people in your life, be they Muslim or not.

And it's not something unreasonable that they're asking you to do.

The Quran says when they ask you to do something unreasonable,

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