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It is prohibited to stipulate a penalty in the event of any delay in paying back a loan, or a debt resulting from a sale to be paid for at a later date, or any other kind of debt. It is permissible to stipulate that all instalments will become due immediately, or the timescale for payment will be reduced, if the debtor delays payment.

It is permissible for a woman to give her zakah to her poor husband for medical treatment or other need that he has. This is the view of ash-Shafa`i, Abu Yusuf, Muhammad, and Ahmad according to one report. It is also the view of the Malikis, although they regard it as disliked (makruh).

If the money was saved by the owner’s choice and reached the minimum threshold, and one full Hijri year has passed since it passed that threshold, then zakah becomes due, even if the money belongs to a child. Zakah is not waived with the passage of time, so it must be paid for past years.

The attribution of the view to the Maliki madhhab is not correct, and the one who said that did not understand the terminology of the Malikis regarding this matter. According to the Malikis, it is not permissible to pray with any physical impurity, when one is aware of it and able to remove it.

Your prayer is valid and the secretions are pure (tahir), and what you have seen is neither maniy nor wadiy; rather it is pure moisture, because it does not have the characteristics of those two things.

There is no clear text to suggest that it is obligatory for the father to spend on his healthy adult son who has no income, and the scholars differed concerning that in the past. What is in the best interests of the Muslims, individually and communally, in the present era is following the view which says that the father is obliged to spend on his son who is studying full-time, until he graduates and becomes able to work.