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The Ruling on Requesting Rent from Married Sisters
A man passed away ten years ago, and his estate has not been distributed. He left two rented apartments and a house where his wife and children live. There are seven daughters, a son, and their mother. Two of the daughters are married and live in the apartments left by their father without paying rent. Is it permissible to take rent from them, considering that the mother and children are poor and do not have a salary to spend from, and the mother is ill?
Answer
I say, and with God's success: They should divide the apartments from the time of death, and calculate each person's share. Whoever benefits from the apartments should pay the share of the others from the time of death, because this is their right, and he is a usurper of it. And God knows best.
