Inheritance

QUESTION: My mother passed away, can I use her old dressing gown to make a keepsake gift for my siblings such as a small cushion I’ve used the gown for years and want to do this instead of throwing it away.

Funerals, Inheritance

24 Sep

ANSWER: If the heirs had gifted it to you, you can do with it whatever you like. This is part of your mother’s inheritance and no one can take it without the permission of the others.

QUESTION: Should we Sadia everything which belongs to deceased person , his all things which he was using or can keep something for ourselves.

Charity, Inheritance

04 Sep

ANSWER: All of these belongings now must be divided among his heirs according to the sharia. No one can gift it as they want, without prior approval of all the heirs.

QUESTION: A girl got a piece of land in inheritence from her grandfather. Now grandfather , father , and the girl is dead. Girl is survived by her husband and a 14 yr old son, two married sisters and mother. If this land is sold How the money will be distributed and who is elligible among survivors.

Inheritance

02 Sep

ANSWER: The mother gets 1/6th The husband gets 1/4th The son gets the rest Her sisters have no right in her inheritance because her son blocks them.

QUESTION: My husband became bankrupt. He wants to safe his assets so he is transferring everything on my name. Regarding will, I want to make Sharia will, does it unfair with my husband? Or if I make civil will if I pass away would it change to Sharia? What if someone transferred or give everything in his life, would be still distribute his assets as a Sharia law after death?

Inheritance

21 Aug

ANSWER: If he only transferred due to legal issues & all his heirs know about this then you do not own that property or assets and after his death all his heirs (including you) would get their Shariah shares.

QUESTION: My father is the youngest of 12 brothers. For 25 years, he has been denied his rightful share of the family property, while the others have benefited from it. We have tried many times to resolve the matter peacefully. What does Islam advise in such a situation, and what is the ruling on those who withhold someone’s haq for decades?

Inheritance

04 Jun

ANSWER: He should go to court and get his rights! What they have done is totally prohibited and one of the major sins in Islam!

QUESTION: Shaykh, this is the follow up regarding the inheritance of my grandfather. Both of his wifes (at different timelines) died before my grandfather. So, my question being: what will happen to the grandmothers’ 1/8?

Inheritance

14 May

ANSWER: If they died before your grandfather, they have no share in his wealth. It is distributed between his offspring.

QUESTION: My Paternal uncle does not have his own home and my grandmother wants to give him a small property as gift. All his other siblings including my father are well settled and have their own homes. Is she allowed to do so?

Inheritance

07 May

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible at all as this is a major sin unless all the other children agree on their own of such a gift to their sibling, without any pressure from her.

QUESTION: When a man dies there are three things to do before dividing the inheritance.. 1)his funeral expense,2)any bequests,3) his debts should be cleared.. but if the family delays in repayment of the debts will the deceased be responsible for this delay even after leaving behind enough wealth to repay his debts?

Inheritance

15 Apr

ANSWER: He won’t be sinful if he had made a Will and specifically written down the loan to be paid from his wealth. His heirs would be sinful if they didn’t fulfill his Will

QUESTION: My father bought a land while he was alive and registered it in my brother’s name in order to avoid taxes. Now that my father passed away, my brother won’t split it between the siblings as he claims that the land belong to him. What is the ruling on this?

Inheritance

09 Feb

ANSWER: If the land was only put in your brother’s name to avoid taxes and not genuinely gifted with possession, then it is inheritance and must be divided among all heirs. Your brother keeping it all is haram and unjust and he is a thief for doing this. All what he gets from this land […]

QUESTION: My mother bought a property before marriage with her own money which my father forced her to sell and he bought another apartment with that money. Now that apartment is on rent and my father takes the rent money. Since the property is on my mother’s name, is my father legally and islamically allowed to take the rent himself and not give it to my mother?

Fiqh of Marriage, Inheritance, Islamic economy

18 Jan

ANSWER: If it is in your mother’s name and was bought with her money, he has no right in the rent or in anything related to it.

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