The Ruling on Preventing Women from Inheritance
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Question:
These are questions asking about the ruling on one who prevents women from inheritance.
Answer:
This is a pre-Islamic practice, may Allah protect us from it; this is a practice of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah). It is as if the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) were the ones who prevented women and children from inheritance.
As for Islam, it said that men have a share, saying:[An-Nisa 4:33]. Men have a share, yes, men have a share of what the parents leave behind. [An-Nisa 4:7] Allah has given women a share just as He has given men a share, and He did not distinguish between men and women except that the inheritance differs; the women's share differs, the woman's share differs from the man's share if they are in the same degree, but this is a detail. However, total deprivation is not permissible, yes.
These are questions asking about the ruling on one who prevents women from inheritance.
Answer:
This is a pre-Islamic practice, may Allah protect us from it; this is a practice of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah). It is as if the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) were the ones who prevented women and children from inheritance.
As for Islam, it said that men have a share, saying:
And for all, We have made heirs to what is left by parents and relatives.
وَلِكُلٍّ جَعَلْنَا مَوَالِيَ مِمَّا تَرَكَ الْوَالِدَانِ وَالْأَقْرَبُونَFor men is a share of what the parents and close relatives leave, and for women is a share of what the parents and close relatives leave, be it little or much - an obligatory share.
لِّلرِّجَالِ نَصِيبٌ مِّمَّا تَرَكَ الْوَالِدَانِ وَالْأَقْرَبُونَ وَلِلنِّسَاءِ نَصِيبٌ مِّمَّا تَرَكَ الْوَالِدَانِ وَالْأَقْرَبُونَ مِمَّا قَلَّ مِنْهُ أَوْ كَثُرَ نَصِيبًا مَّفْرُوضًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-072-فضل إصلاح ذات البين|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:07:19)
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