Inheritance

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.

QUESTION: If dad no longer alive, son’s married off his daughters. Do the daughters have right over the property of dad even after getting married from the brothers expenses. Please give me the answer

Fiqh of the family, Inheritance

23 Nov

ANSWER: Of course they have the right on their father’s property and possessions unless their brother told them beforehand that the money he’s using to get them married off is from their share of inheritance and the sisters had agreed to that.

QUESTION: A son has been very disobedient towards his father and has aided in seperating his parents by taking side of his mother. They don’t want to initiate khula since the wife doesn’t want to lose share in the property. Father is still open to welcome both of them back but if he passes away in such a state he wishes that his son alone be deprived of any share in his property. Is this permissible ?

Inheritance

02 Nov

ANSWER: No, he cannot deprive his son from his god given right, despite how undutiful he is, as this is Allah’s law.

QUESTION: My father passed away and left no will My mother is still alive and my siblings are trying to avoid inheritance tax, by passing down the inheritance to my mother. Is it allowed in Islam for me to agree/sign so that inheritance goes all to my mother

Inheritance

24 Oct

ANSWER: The inheritance must be divided according to Sharia law. If signing this document would allow your mother to distribute it accordingly, there is no problem in this to avoid the tax though I had encountered tens of similar cases where the mother seized all wealth for herself and refused to give her children a […]

QUESTION: I gifted a watch to my father. After some month’s my father passed away. So i can take my watch back? What’s the ruling on this?

Fiqh of the family, Inheritance

31 Aug

ANSWER: No, you cannot take it back! It’s part of his inheritance now

More..