When seeking knowledge conflicts with honouring one’s parents
Question

                A seeker of knowledge wants to go with his bothers in Islam to seek knowledge. What is stopping him from going with them is his family, his father and mother. What is the ruling on this student traveling?
Praise be to Allah. 
          If there is a necessary reason why this 
          student should stay (with his parents), then it is better for him to 
          do so. However, he can stay with them whilst also seeking knowledge, 
          because honouring one’s parents takes precedence over jihad for the 
          sake of Allaah, and knowledge is part of jihad. Therefore honouring 
          his parents takes precedence over seeking knowledge if they need him.
 
           But if they do not need him, and 
          he will be able to seek more knowledge by traveling, then there is nothing 
          wrong with him travelling to seek knowledge. But at the same time he 
          should not forget the rights of his parents, so he should come back 
          and explain to them when he comes back why he left. But if he knows 
          that his parents dislike the pursuit Islamic knowledge, then in this 
          case he should not obey them and he does not have to seek their permission 
          to travel, because what is making them refuse is their dislike of Islamic 
          knowledge.