Is it obligatory for a daughter to provide for her father if he is poor?

Question : This is a woman asking. She says that some people say that a daughter is required, or that a girl is required, to provide for her father if she is working, for example, and that she is equal to the son in this obligation. Even though we have heard from one of the brothers that a woman is not required to provide for her parents, even if she is working or wealthy, and her father is poor. What is required of her in such a case?

Answer : In such a situation, she is required to provide for her father, and there is no difference between this and zakah. As long as she is wealthy and her father is poor, it is obligatory for her to provide for him what suffices him and his wife, if she is her mother, then by virtue of motherhood, and if she is not her mother, then because that is among her father’s needs and necessities. So she provides for him and his wife. And whoever says that maintenance is obligatory on the son only, and not on the daughter, has erred. For there is no difference in dutifulness between males and females. Both the son and the daughter are required to be dutiful to their parents, their father and their mother. Yes. May Allah reward you with good.