What is a fair distribution for a mother who has one son and four daughters, and is relinquishing her share in her three-story house, given that the son lives on the second floor and uses an apartment on the ground floor, one of the daughters wants the ground floor for a clinic, while the mother lives with her youngest daughter on the third floor, and the other daughters are married?
It is not valid to divide wealth as an inheritance during the owner's lifetime. It is to be divided after the mother's death according to the Book of Allah, with the male receiving the share of two females. The mother may gift to her children equitably, and the share of each of them will go to their heirs if they pass away before her. What the children benefit from during the mother's lifetime is not owned by them; it becomes an inheritance after her death. Scholars have differed on justice in division during the lifetime of the giver between males and females. Some say that equality is obligatory, while others say that the male is given the share of two females.
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