Learning the Law of Inheritance in the Presence of the Computer

The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, some people claim that learning the law of inheritance is not required, especially in this contemporary time,

The Shaykh:
All right.

The questioner:
because of progress, technology, and the computer. You put the deceased and his heirs into this machine, and then it divides the estate. What is your opinion?

The Shaykh:
What Allah willed. The inanimate object, meaning it knows the rulings. The inanimate object must be given correct information. It is a machine; you must give it correct information. If you give it incorrect information, it produces an error. You must be a scholar first, dictate to it, and input the data. As for expecting it to do the work for you and produce the rulings and inheritances, it is a machine. Yes.

The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, some people divide. Yes.

The Shaykh:
and assist. There is no doubt that it assists. Instead of calculating from the beginning, they used to calculate with their fingers; they called it the finger table, especially the skilled ones, and they became proficient, Glorified and Exalted is He, in calculating inheritance with their fingers. Then they started learning with the pen, the blackboard, and chalk. Then, when calculators and these things came, they are used by the scholar who knows; the one who knows uses them. As for the one who does not know, they are of no benefit to him. Yes.