Equality between males and females in inheritance
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Question:
Ahmad Atawi, a resident of the Kingdom, says: We know that it is not permissible to equalize the male with the female in inheritance, so perhaps you have a word on this, as this practice is still prevalent in our village.
Answer:
People are at two extremes, and neither is from Allah, regarding the issue of women’s inheritance. Some of them forbid her from inheritance and do not say she is entitled to anything, like the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance and those who follow their path. And some of them exaggerate in her right and giving her, until they equalize her with the man and give her from the inheritance what is not hers. In that case, they have harmed the woman.
No, she does not have that. The woman is given the inheritance that Allah has prescribed for her. Indeed, Allah has given every one who has a right his right. It is not permissible to manipulate inheritances by increasing or decreasing what Allah has legislated. When Allah mentioned inheritances in Surat al-Nisa, He said: “Those are the limits of Allah.”
So that they may obey Allah and His Messenger. Gardens under which rivers flow[An-Nisa 4:13-14], Allah the Exalted said: [An-Nisa 4:7]. Yes.
Ahmad Atawi, a resident of the Kingdom, says: We know that it is not permissible to equalize the male with the female in inheritance, so perhaps you have a word on this, as this practice is still prevalent in our village.
Answer:
People are at two extremes, and neither is from Allah, regarding the issue of women’s inheritance. Some of them forbid her from inheritance and do not say she is entitled to anything, like the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance and those who follow their path. And some of them exaggerate in her right and giving her, until they equalize her with the man and give her from the inheritance what is not hers. In that case, they have harmed the woman.
No, she does not have that. The woman is given the inheritance that Allah has prescribed for her. Indeed, Allah has given every one who has a right his right. It is not permissible to manipulate inheritances by increasing or decreasing what Allah has legislated. When Allah mentioned inheritances in Surat al-Nisa, He said: “Those are the limits of Allah.”
So that they may obey Allah and His Messenger. Gardens under which rivers flow
rivers flow, abiding eternally therein; and that is the great attainment. (14) And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger and transgresses His limits - He will put him into the Fire to abide eternally therein, and he will have a humiliating punishment.
الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا وَذَٰلِكَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ وَمَن يَعْصِ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَيَتَعَدَّ حُدُودَهُ يُدْخِلْهُ نَارًا خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَلَهُ عَذَابٌ مُّهِينٌFor 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
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/210 — archive.org (14:17)
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