Is it permissible to pay the domestic worker's wages to the mother from zakat funds?
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If a mother needs service, her able children are obligated to serve her themselves or by hiring a servant for her. If the servant's wages are obligatory for you as maintenance, then it is not permissible to pay them from , unless you are unable to pay them from your own money, or if doing so would harm you.
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