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From: mentor.com!ikhan%tessi.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Iqbal Khan)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: Makeing a Will the Islamic way
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Date: 16 Jul 90 14:41:17 GMT
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In article <14011@wpi.wpi.edu> admin@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Khalid Sattar) writes:
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>Can anyone tell me what Islam has to say on the subject of Last Will
>and Testament. What is the correct way?

If you mean inheritence of property in the Will, then Islam has laid down very specific
intructions as to how the property of a deseased is to be handled.  You have control
over 1/3 of your property to give away as a gift etc.  However, 2/3 will have to be
distributed according to the teachings of Islam.  I do not remember the details of
who gets how much but it is mentioned in Qur'an VERY specifically.  Can someone
else help?

Iqbal Mustafa Khan