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Is the money you receive from the state while caring for your ill husband in your home, without the authorities' knowledge, considered unlawful money (haram)?

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The questioner must uphold her husband's rights and fulfill her duties towards him completely, especially since he is ill and in need of support, and the law that prevents her from doing so is of no consequence. Therefore, either she returns to her husband and he comes back to his home, and the salary she receives as a caregiver for her children stops, or her husband remains where he is without her care, and the salary continues. Her duty is to be with her husband, even if it leads to less money and the cessation of the second salary, thereby combining the fulfillment of her husband's rights with the adherence to the conditions. In cases of necessity and extreme hardship, she is permitted to circumvent the law to alleviate this necessity, because necessities permit the prohibited. If the necessity ceases, she should refrain from taking the salary except according to the conditions.

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