Equipping a Father’s Daughters for Marriage and Equalizing Between Them

The questioner:
If he buys gold or a trousseau for one of his daughters, is he required to do the same for her sisters? Yes. If he buys for one of his daughters, whether it is gold or a trousseau, he is required to do so for one of them

The Shaykh:
from his own money, or from her mahr (bridal gift).

The questioner:
Not from your money. I mean, it goes back.

The Shaykh:
Your custom is that the father equips the daughter, right?

The questioner:
Yes, indeed.

The Shaykh:
Your custom is that the father equips the daughter. In India, it is the woman who pays the mahr to the husband, right? Yes. This is according to customs. So, Allah knows best, what you mentioned: if it is the custom that the father equips the daughter for marriage, then this is not a gift, but rather it is from spending. It is from spending. So, if the second daughter wants to get married, he equips her just as he equipped the first one. This is from the category of spending. Yes.

The questioner:
And there is no requirement for equal sharing, I mean.

The Shaykh:
This is according to need, according to need. I told you that in maintenance (nafaqah), equality is not considered; it is according to need. There is no doubt that a child eats less than an adult. Do you want to require yourself to equalize between them in food? This is maintenance. Yes. Clothing is the same; the older one wears more than the younger one, and so on. Yes.

The questioner:
Thank you.

The Shaykh:
What is prohibited is endowing ownership, endowing ownership. But as for spending and consumption, there is no requirement for equalization in that. Yes.

The questioner:
What if there is something, if it is permissible, and the first one dies and he has three.

The Shaykh:
That is it, it is over. Since he died, what are you demanding? He died. Yes, but if one of them, I mean, wanted to get married and he is alive and has money, he is required to equip her just as he equipped the first one. Yes.