Is it permissible for a widow who lives with her family, and they provide for her, and she receives a monthly sum from her deceased husband's entitlements, to take zakat for herself and her daughters under the pretext of saving it for the future?
If the woman's father spends on her and her two daughters enough to cover their needs, or if they own what suffices them, then it is not permissible for them to take zakat, because zakat is given only to the poor.
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