What is the ruling on giving charity on behalf of a living person with a specific intention, accompanied by supplication, hoping for God to answer my prayer?
Charity on behalf of a living person is permissible, and its reward reaches them. There is no harm in it being given with the intention of fulfilling a need or answering a prayer.
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