What is the ruling on depriving women of inheritance?
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Question:
He says: In our country, in some villages, they deprive the woman of her inheritance, of her right, and they may give her a little by way of appeasement. What do you say about that?
Answer:
This is one of the matters of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, may Allah protect us from it. The people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance used to prevent women and children from inheritance. Then Islam came and abolished this.[An-Nisa 4:7] It is not permissible to deprive an heir of his inheritance, whether a man or a woman, an adult or a child. Each one is given his right from the inheritance.
He says: In our country, in some villages, they deprive the woman of her inheritance, of her right, and they may give her a little by way of appeasement. What do you say about that?
Answer:
This is one of the matters of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, may Allah protect us from it. The people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance used to prevent women and children from inheritance. Then Islam came and abolished this.
For 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»، ما حكم حرمان النساء من الميراث؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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