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Is it permissible for a wealthy father who pays Zakat to take from another person's Zakat to fund his son's university education, knowing that the son is studying accounting?

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The father is not obligated to financially support an adult son who is capable of earning. In this case, the son is permitted to take from zakat funds what is sufficient for his worldly studies. His father is allowed to receive these funds on his behalf. A condition for the permissibility of taking from zakat is that the student is not able to combine work and study, or that combining them would negatively affect his academic achievement. It is preferable and better for his father to support him from his own money, or for the son to strive to combine work and study, for the upper hand is better than the lower hand.

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