What is the ruling on a woman taking from the zakah to buy jewelry?

Question : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And may prayers and peace be upon the noblest of the prophets and messengers, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. After that, the questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, a married woman finds her needs for food, clothing, and housing met, but she does not own any gold. Is it permissible for her to take zakah in order to buy jewelry with which to adorn herself for her husband? For many women may have fallen into the error of taking zakah for this reason.

Answer : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. A woman adorns herself with jewelry for her husband. It is good and beautiful for her husband to buy her jewelry from his own money. However, the husband may be stingy or poor, so he is unable to give her from his money. In that case, she may take from the zakah the amount of jewelry that women of her status wear, not the excessive jewelry that only wealthy women wear, but the amount that women of her status wear. Because the jewelry that women of her status wear is considered like clothing.