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Maintaining equality when dealing with one’s children

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Q: Is it correct for a father to dispose of his wealth to his only son, as in put everything into his sons name before he dies because he does not wish his wife or three daughters to inherit his vast amount of wealth. Also, is it correct to give your three daughters and one son according to Shar’iah when you are still alive? Is it correct to treat your daughters as a burden and say they are entitled to nothing because of they are married. Furthermore, Allah has blessed this father with so much wealth that he humiliates his son in-laws, lies and causes family divisions between the brother and sisters. I have never embarrassed my father or ever claimed the truth from anyone. He has lied about my husband. I always say Allah will give me justice. But now my father wishes to take my sister and my mother out of his trust and put a business worth millions into my brother’s name because he is afraid we will inherit from the business when he dies. He does not wish for his three daughters or like he says burdens to benefit from this business.

Bismillaah

A:

This is haraam. He will be sinful for this.

It is permissible, although it is more appropriate that he gives them equally if he is giving it away to them in his lifetime.

This is not the behaviour of a Muslim.

And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)

This answer was collected from MuftiOnline.co.za, where the questions have been answered by Mufti Zakaria Makada (Hafizahullah), who is currently a senior lecturer in the science of Hadith and Fiqh at Madrasah Ta’leemuddeen, Isipingo Beach, South Africa.

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