Is what a father pays to marry off his son considered an obligatory expenditure, a gift, or a grant, and is it permissible for him to favor some of his children in giving gifts after marrying off his son and paying his marriage expenses?
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The adopted by us dictates the obligation of equality between children, male and female, in gifts and endowments, unless there is a necessity that warrants preferential treatment. What a father spends on marrying off his children in a reasonable manner falls under the category of expenditures, not gifts. However, a father's gifting of apartments to his sons without including his daughters constitutes preferential treatment in a gift, not an expenditure, because housing is not exclusively tied to owning a house. Therefore, compensating the daughters with money equivalent to the apartments is the correct approach.
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