Is it permissible to pay my parents' water and electricity bills from Zakat money, knowing that he faces difficulty in paying them and has a regular income, and I am married and do not live with him?
It is obligatory for a child to provide for his poor father if the child is wealthy, and this provision includes electricity and water bills. If the provision is obligatory upon the child, then it is not permissible to pay these bills from , because paying them would benefit the child by relieving him of the obligation of providing for his father.
It is permissible for a child to give his father from Zakat in two cases: 1. If the father's provision is not obligatory upon the child due to the child's inability to provide it. 2. If the father has debts not resulting from expenses obligatory upon the child, then it is permissible for the child to pay them from his Zakat.
Accordingly, if the child is able to provide for his father, it is obligatory for him to pay his father's bills, and this is not counted as Zakat. However, if he is unable to provide, then it is permissible for it to be counted as Zakat.
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