Is it permissible to give Zakat to a poor, immigrant stepmother who is raising children?
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If your father is poor, his maintenance, the maintenance of his wife, and that of your younger siblings becomes obligatory upon you. It is not permissible for you to give your to those whose maintenance is obligatory upon you.
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