1. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims
  2. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

48 Questions

What are the issues to be considered, such as around inheritance or any other Islamic aspect, when raising an illegitimate child that is not yours? And how can these challenges be overcome?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Raising a child in need who is not your child is a great act of reward and it is a way to Paradise if it is done according to the teachings of Islam. As the child is not your child, there is no inheritance between you and the child, although you are free to give him in your will up to one third of what you leave, and you can gift him during your life whatever you like to gift him.

When the child becomes Baaligh, Hijab is must.

Wassalam.
My uncle, who has a son and a daughter, has passed away without making a will. Who does the inheritance go to in this situation?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Two thirds of what he left goes to the son, and one third goes to the daughter. This is if he left only one son and one daughter only with out wife. If he left a wife, she gets one eighth, then the remaining should be made in three equal shares, two shares for the son and one share for the daughter.

Wassalam.
If a man or woman marries a non-Muslim are they entitled to inheritance from their parents?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Yes as far as they are Muslims.
Muslim sinner , no matter what type of sins, inherits from his Muslim parents. Non Muslim is not allowed to inherit from Muslim.

Wassalam..
Who should inherit a woman? If she is survived by a husband, son and daughter how would the inheritance be calculated? What would be the situation if the daughter had already passed away?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Her husband gets one quarter. The remaining three quarters goes to the son and daughter who were alive when the woman died. Two shares for the son and one share for the daughter. 
If the daughter had already passed away before her mother, the son will get the three quarters.

Wassalam.