Rights of servants

Q: Do you have to obey your mother in everything except if they tell you to disobey Allah? (What if the parents tell you that you can’t go outside except on Mondays and they are abusive?)

Q: What should be our behaviour with Non Muslim parents? Should we love them with our hearts? And are we allowed to have light hearted conversations with them and joke with them?

Q: What is the Islamic ruling on hugging and kissing your mother?

Q: If a close relative who is your mahram is hurting your feelings constantly and you do not like it , how do you distance yourself from him without being disrespectful and you would not want to create any distance between other family members and break family ties?

Q: If parents give us an order that is against Islam, should we obey that?

Q: A fruit from the neighbour’s tree fell into my land and remained there until it grew into a tree. To whom does the tree belong?

Q: I am working as a madressa aapa. The person who employed me is old and sometimes forgets to pay me for up to 3 months. I don't mind, and when he does sometimes he forgets a month etc. Someone told me that he will be held accountable on the Day of Judgement which I don't want as he is old and forgetful and also like a father figure to me. Do I just make duaa and ask Allah not to hold him accountable.

Q: A person has a cat. He and his family love the cat. But the person’s father does not like him to keep the cat and he says to the person that he should not keep the cat. But the person and his family are so attached to the cat. They do not want to give the cat to anyone. The thought of staying without the cat makes them cry. So can the person keep the cat? If the person does not listen to his father’s advice because listening to his father’s this advice will emotionally hurt his family a lot, then is he sinning?

Q: My wife's father demands from her to massage him and bath him while he is just wearing bermuda type shorts. He ignores her condition or tiredness. I want to know if it is allowed for him to demand this service from her? Am I justified forbidding her to do so? He lives in another city and keeps on insisting for her to come there, totally ignorant of the fact that she has a job and kids to look after. Now he is demanding to move in with her just for the reason that she may serve him like that. He has a wife who is my wife's step mother. I do not like her massaging or bathing him in his semi nude condition, but my wife said that its a culture of their country.

Q: In which condition we can disobey our parents?