Inheritance and Winding up of Estates

The laws of inheritance is that branch of Islamic knowledge which has been referred to as "half of Islamic knowledge" by Rasulullah (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam). This may be so because money has a great share in a person's life and consequently in his 'ibaadah as well.

There are booklets on the subject in various languages including English, but to my knowledge all of them deal with the intricate and difficult rulings of how the inheritance must be distributed, i.e. what each person's share should be. This bores the common man and woman and should be left to the Muftis.

What was really needed was to inform the public of the importance and need of getting one's financial matters sorted out according to Islam, drawing up one's will and distributing one's estate according to shari'ah. Alhamdulillah, this has been very ably done by Moulana Muhammad Ilyas Patel in this booklet.