Eid Mubarak Everyone!

[LordAnubis]

It was an interesting month of Ramadan. Where normally you go out and about your usual business. I was in iso. Where normally I walk past a coffee shop and smell the coffee and restrain myself from getting a cup. I was in iso. When normally I’m at work and everyone heating up their lunch and it wafts through the office. I was in iso. When normally I’m breaking fast with friends and family and praying extra prayers at night times in congregation at the mosque. I was in iso. Plus there was the part where by all accounts I should have died but somehow I can put with a few fractures and scrapes. 

 

I hope everyone competed their month of Ramadan in service of improvement of body mind and soul. I wish you all (celebrating or not) a blessed day full of family and friends and may we all gain another year of improved growth, kindness, and respect for one another  

 

Today I’ll give you insight into something I recently did (totally unrelated to getting run over by a car and all... honestly). My will. In Islam, a persons will is pretty easy. Because you have no choice. It is clearly prescribed in the Quran how ones estate is to be divided among blood kin. 

 

The rule in Islam is that one can distribute up to 1/3 of your estate to anyone you wish (who is outside your inheritance prescribed), but you can not increase the amount that must be given to those who will take your inheritance. So for example, in Islam, an adopted child does not get any inheritance. However, if a person has an adopted child then they can give up to 1/3 of their estate to their adopted child. If there was two, then both can get a share of a total of 1/3. 

 

The rest of it is actually quite complicated. It depends on who’s alive of your blood. If you have for example a son, daughter, wife and brother, then the son will get 58%, daughter will get 29% and wife will get 13%. The brother will get nothing. 

 

There’s the common argument of how Islam is unequal, where the girls never get the same amount as boys in inheritance. I’m not going to touch on right and wrong in this regard but I’ll say the following. In Islam all women are the responsibility of a male. My sister is the responsibility of my father. It is my fathers responsibility to provide everything for my sister. It is his responsibility to provide a home, food, transport, clothes etc for her. She has no obligation whatsoever to repay her father etc. When my father dies, I inherit all responsibility for my sister. So while she gets 29% of the inheritance and I get 58%, I have to fully provide for her for the rest of her life. That is my obligation to her. I don’t have a sister mind you, I have a wife, for which the exact same applies. I have no right to ask my wife to get a job for example. If she wishes to get a job and earn money that is her decision, and if she uses her earnings to help pay bills that is of her own decision and kindness. If I had a sister  then I am required to support my mother, my wife and my sister for all of their needs. I got the rough end of a stick I reckon! ?

 

The only time in Islam that inheritance can be changed form what is prescribed is if the person who was going to get inheritance was the one who killed the person. 

 

I hope some of this has been insightful and wish you all a blessed and joyful day of celebration with (socially distanced) time with friends and family. 

 

[StogieSteve23]

1 hour ago, LordAnubis said:

I hope some of this has been insightful and wish you all a blessed and joyful day of celebration with (socially distanced) time with friends and family. 

Very insightful and interesting to read! I am sorry for the "iso Ramadan" but we always have next year (hopefully as long as this stuff passes)! 

[El Presidente]

Eid Mubarak Mus!

[SmokyFontaine]

Eid mubarak bro! This Ramadan was special for me because it was the first year my son was a good age and willing to make the intention to fast all month. It was touching to wake up for early morning breakfasts for the few days my wife wasn't fasting too, just the two of us. Very proud of him for completing the month, and the two other kids who fasted a handful of days. 

...Now to start testing out some of those cigars that avoided a fiery demise these past 30 days!

I'm greatly appreciative of the inclusive, good-hearted folks here on the FOH forums. What a tremendous community!

[LordAnubis]

Mashallah to your son who fasted the whole month! Excellent going! My two nephews did the same this year. The younger one started by saying he’d only fast weekends and public holidays but then just kept on fasting!  Very proud for you and the family mate ??

[Fuzz AI]

Eid mubarak, Mus, and to everyone else as well.

 

[throberto]

Eid Mubarak to you and yours and thanks for sharing.
I have been an atheist all my life but have always found religion fascinating. I didn't know about the process for Islamic wills, very interesting.


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[SonGoku]

Eid Mubarak

[99call]

Eid Mubarak, I hope all who are celebrating manage to enjoy during these difficult times 

[jvd1291]

Wow that is a *LOT* of responsibility! I dont know how you do it.

[CaptainQuintero]

  Hope you and yours have a good one Mus, probably wasn't the one you were expecting by any stretch of the imagination but those ones are normally the ones that we learn a lot from, just glad it ended ok ?