{"id":6473,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/refusing-the-sisters-their-legal-share-in-inheritance\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:26:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:26:55","slug":"refusing-the-sisters-their-legal-share-in-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/refusing-the-sisters-their-legal-share-in-inheritance\/","title":{"rendered":"Refusing The Sisters Their Legal Share In Inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>My questions relate to problems in inheritance laws. These questions are as follows:<\/p>\n<div>1.  Although in Islam 1\/3 property is to be inherited by daughter after the  death of father. But usually a situation is created in which sisters  have to surrender their share totheir brothers. They are pressurized by  their mothers especially to surrender their share in favour of brothers.  They are also forced by the brothers and other relatives. Ultimately  sisters are compelled to surrender their share in fovour of the  brothers. Sometimes there is a huge property but that is not divided  justly and sisters have to surrender in favour of their brothers.  Sisters have to surrendr because they do not want to make their brothers  and especaially mothers angry. Can you please guide me and others about  this social evil in the light of the Qur\u2019an and Sunnah?<\/div>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>First  a correction is needed. If there are only daughters, and if they are  two or more than two, they shall share equally in 2\/3rds of the  inheritance left after giving other shares. And in case there is only  one daughter, then her share is one half of the inheritance left.<\/p>\n<div>As  to the social evil you have pointed to, this is indeed a very sorry  state of affairs. Sisters must never be compelled to do so. Those who  compel them to do so should know that this is a very grave sin in the  eyes of the Almighty. Perhaps sisters in our society should start taking  a stand against this social evil and the oppressed ones can even join  hands to create moral pressure. Even laws can be enacted to protect  them.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-18<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6473\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My questions relate to problems in inheritance laws. These questions are as follows:<\/p>\n<div>1.  Although in Islam 1\/3 property is to be inherited by daughter after the  death of father. But usually a situation is created in which sisters  have to surrender their share totheir brothers. They are pressurized by  their mothers especially to surrender their share in favour of brothers.  They are also forced by the brothers and other relatives. Ultimately  sisters are compelled to surrender their share in fovour of the  brothers. Sometimes there is a huge property but that is not divided  justly and sisters have to surrender in favour of their brothers.  Sisters have to surrendr because they do not want to make their brothers  and especaially mothers angry. Can you please guide me and others about  this social evil in the light of the Qur\u2019an and Sunnah?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1169],"tags":[1216,1977,1310],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-issues","tag-inheritance","tag-law-of-inheritance","tag-property"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Refusing The Sisters Their Legal Share In Inheritance - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/refusing-the-sisters-their-legal-share-in-inheritance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Refusing The Sisters Their Legal Share In Inheritance - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My questions relate to problems in inheritance laws. 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