lesson 72 inheritance (1). inheritance: inheritance for muslim relatives is an obligation
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It is prevented in the following conditions:
a) unbelief ,
b) when the heir kills the inherited person, and
c) committing the sin of adultery.
The heirs who are bound to receive their share of the inheritance are: the husband or wife, father and mother, grandmother,
grandfather and upward, sons and daughters, grandchildren through the
son, brother and sister, nephews through the brother, paternal uncle and paternal
cousins.
Universal heirs:
Universal heir: is someone who inherits all the inheritance if he is the only one to
inherit, or takes what remains after the heirs deserving obligatory shares have
taken their dues.
Divisions of Universal heirs:
Universal heirs are divided into:
a) Universal heir by oneself such as the father, grandfather, son, full or paternal
brother and the sons of any, and full paternal uncle or half paternal uncle to
the grandfather and the sons of any.
Divisions of Universal heirs:
b) Universal heirs as related to one another that is, every female related to a male
universal heir of the same degree inherits with him such as a daughter and son.
Divisions of Universal heirs:
c) Universal heir with another, is that every female becomes a universal heir with another female universal heir, like the
sister with the daughter.
Prevention of inheritance:
Those heirs whose shares are eliminated by others, i.e. the existence of some heirs
prevents others from inheritance either:
partially or totally .
The obligatory shares mentioned in the Qur’an 1- One-half:
a) for the husband if his wife has no children
5- One-third:
a) for the mother if her inherited son has neither a male nor a female child, nor grandchild, nor two or more
brothers and sisters.
One-third:
b) The mother's brothers if they are two or more, and if the inherited has no direct inheritor such as father, grandfather, or
male and female grandchildren.
6- One-sixth:
a) for the mother if the inherited has children or grandchildren, or has two or more sisters and brothers. The same for the grandmother if the inherited has no
mother with the same conditions.
One-sixth:
b) The father, whether the inherited has no children or not. The grandfather if the
inherited has no father.
One-sixth:
c) The only brother or only sister of the mother if the inherited has no father, grandfather nor child. The paternal
sister in the presence of one full sister if there is no paternal brother, mother,
grandfather, son, nor grandson.