Obeying the infidels
Obeying the infidels
Question: If an infidel employer prevents his Muslim employee from celebrating Eid, what should the employee do?
Answer: The employee should quit his job, because obeying a creature in disobedience to the Creator is not permissible. Just as worshiping other than Allah is disbelief (kufr) and polytheism (shirk), similarly, obeying other than Allah independently is also kufr.
And obeying independently means considering him the authority of laws and putting the yoke of obedience around one's neck, considering his imitation necessary and obligatory, and not abandoning his followers despite contradicting divine laws. This is also a type of adoption of attitude. (Jami'-ul-Fatawa, Volume: 3, Page: 312).