Is it permissible for a mother to secretly give her saved money as zakat, without her husband's knowledge, after he had forgiven her for concealing the money?
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If the money is fully owned by your mother, has reached the (minimum threshold), and a full year (hawl) has passed on it, then she must pay (2.5% of the money). Your father cannot prevent her from doing so, and she is not obliged to inform him of it, as his knowledge is not a condition for zakat to be obligatory or for its payment to be valid.
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