Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Islamic Inheritance Calculator and what can it do?
Answer: The Islamic Inheritance Calculator is a computer programme / software that takes input from the user, afterward outputs the result / answer in accordance with the Islamic inheritance Laws and Rules
Who is the author / programmer of the Islamic Inheritance calculator?
Answer: The Islamic Inheritance Calculator is authored and programmed by a professional Lawyer Advocate Muhammad Waqas, who is also a self taught computer programmer. The Islamic Inheritance Calculator is a computer programme / software that takes input from the user, afterward outputs the result / answer in accordance with the Islamic inheritance Laws and Rules
What sources were used for the development of the Islamic Inheritance Calculator?
Answer: Different sources were used for the development of the Islamic Inheritance Calculator, such as The Quran, Ahdith Books, Fiqh Books and many general book written on the subject of Islamic Inheritance calculation and distribution.
Who can benefit from the Islamic Inheritance Calculator?
Answer: Anybody , who wants to get inheritance distribution in accordance with the Islamic Inheritance law, can benefit from the Islamic Inheritance calculator. The Islamic Inheritance calculator is very beneficial especially for The Judges, The lawyers, The Mufits and The scholars, who have to deal with different inheritance prepositions / questions / problems in the ordinary course of business.
How much knowledge by the user, about the Islamic inheritance law and rule, is required to use the Islamic Inheritance Calculator?
Answer: In order to use the Islamic Inheritance Calculator, no knowledge of Islamic Inheritance Laws and Rules is required by the user, he/she just need to be familiarized with, how to input values and submit and that is enough to use the Islamic Inheritance Calculator.
Has the Inheritance Calculator been tested by any reliable authority/person?
Answer: Yes the Islamic Inheritance Calculator has been tested and verified by many lawyers, judges, and muftis etc. Moreover, the Islamic Inheritance Calculator is being used on regular basis by the lawyers, the judges, scholars and muftis etc.
How much can we rely on the result outputted by the Online Islamic Inheritance Calculator?
Answer: The user of the Islamic Inheritance Calculator may rely 100%, on the results generated by the Inheritance Calculator, because the inheritance calculator does not only generate the mathematical answers such as fractions, percentages etc, but also generates / outputs the references ( The Quran, Ahadith, Other Books) and analysis on the basis of which the results are generated, hence , the user of the Islamic inheritance calculator may rely on the results generated / outputted by the Inheritance Calculator.
Is there any way to point out the error or mistake in the Islamic Inheritance Calculator?
Answer: Yes the user may use the any of the following options: 1. Contact Form : use the Contact Form 2. Email address : lawyer.waqas@gmail.com 3. Mailing Address: To Advocate Muahmmad Waqas , Office #14, 1st Floor, Asim Center, Opposite Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Muree Road, Rawalpindi,Pakistan. 4. Mobile Call : 03455919616. Beside the above mentioned options, there is also another option “Report an Error the Author” button on the page, below the result generated by the Islamic Inheritance Calculator. The user just need to click the said button and thereafter the user will be directed toward a page, where the user will be able to send comment/message, including all the result generated by the Islamic Inheritance Calculator, to the author / programmer Advocate Muhammad Waqas. Moreover, the Online Islamic Inheritance Calculator is programmed to auto report the error to the author / programmer Advocate Muhammad Waqas, that is to say, the mathematical result i.e. fractions, percentages and ratio etc generated by the Islamic Inheritance calculator must be the whole ( 1/1 ) after the calculation of the shares in the “Total” row and columns (See the “Total”: rows and column in the result). if the total shares exceeds the unity or less than the whole (1/1) share, then it means there is an error in the calculation, because a result in the total rows and column must be 1/1 and 100% and if so, as discussed in preceding line, then an erroneous results generated by the Islamic inheritance calculator are programmatically reported to the author Advocate Muhammad Waqas and the user is warned and disallowed to use the said erroneous results.
How much time does it take to learn the Islamic Inheritance Law and can the user learn from the results generated by the Islamic Inheritance Calculator?
Answer: It depends on an individual learner, how much he/she is willing to learn. The one who wants to learn the Islamic Inheritance law, rules and calculation, then there is a great chance for the user of the inheritance calculator to learn from Islamic Inheritance Calculator, because it also teaches what are the Laws and Rules applied to a specific preposition/question and what is the mathematically procedure to calculate an individual as well as a collective sharer of a legal heir.
What does schools Fiqh (Juristic School) mean and which one to select while using The Islamic Inheritance Calculator?
Answer: Fiqh literally means knowledge and study of Islamic laws and rules. The Juristic schools (Fiqha) with regard to the Islamic inheritance calculator means to which schools and to whom a user of the Islamic Inheritance Calculator follows e.g. Hanafi means a follower of the Imam abu Hanafi or Hanafi School of Thoughts similarly the Maliki means a follower of the Imam Malik or the Maliki School of Thoughts, hence, a user is free to select his /her Fiqha / school of thoughts and the result will be generated accordingly.
Who are primary heirs Primary Heirs ( Ashab-ul-Furud ) ?
Answer: A primary heir is the one, who cannot be deprived from inheritance and Ashab-ul-Furud are those heirs, whose shares are fixed by The Quran. The Primary Heirs ( Ashab-ul-Furud ) are also called the Fixed Sharer .
Who are Residuaries (Secondary Heirs ) AL-ASABAT ?
Answer: A residuary sharer means a sharer who is not a fixed sharer. The Residuary sharer gets a share from whatever is leftover or residue after the fixed shares are assigned their prescribed fixed shares.
Who are distant kindred Dhawul-Arham?
Answer: A distant Kindred (Dhawul-Arham) means the one who is neither a fixed sharer nor residuary sharer. Usually a woman intervenes between distant Kindred (Dhawul-Arham) and deceased i.e. distant Kindred (Dhawul-Arham) relates to the deceased through a woman.
How many Classes of distant kindred Dhawul-Arham are there?
Answer: There are four Classes of distant kindred Dhawul-Arham mentioned below: 1. Distant kindred Dhawul-Arham First Class 2. Distant kindred Dhawul-Arham Second Class 3. Distant kindred Dhawul-Arham Third Class 4. Distant kindred Dhawul-Arham Fourth Class
How does Total Amount distributed among the legal heirs?
Answer: The total amount is shared by the each heir according to his/her respective share.
What are The Funeral and The Burial Expenses with regard to Islamic Inheritance?
Answer: Those are the expenses deducted from the estate of the deceased. The Funeral and The Burial Expenses are deducted before the distribution of the inheritance among legal heirs.
What does Dower Amount mean with regard to Islamic Inheritance?
Answer: The dower amount in regard to Islamic inheritance means an amount payable to wife/ widow of the deceased if the said amount is not paid by the deceased to the wife/widow in his life time. The said dower amount is deducted from the estate of the deceased before the distribution of inheritance.
What does Loan Payment with regard to distribution of Islamic Inheritance mean?
Answer: The Loan Payment with regard to the distribution of Islamic inheritance means the deduction of a loan payment from the estate of the deceased, which the deceased has taken and the said payment of the loan is deducted from the estate of the deceased before the distribution of the inheritance.
What does “First type of Loan” with regard to distribution of Islamic Inheritance mean?
Answer: The “First type of Loan” with regard to distribution of Islamic Inheritance means a loan which had been taken by the deceased while he/she was healthy, in other words, the loan which has not been taken on death bed and the said payment of the loan is deducted from the estate of the deceased before the distribution of the inheritance.
What does “Second Type of loan” with regard to distribution of Islamic Inheritance mean?
Answer: The “Second Type of loan” with regard to distribution of Islamic Inheritance means a loan which the deceased had taken while he/she was on death bed and the said payment of the loan is deducted from the estate of the deceased before the distribution of the inheritance.
What does Doctrine of Al-Radd (Reversion) mean?
Answer: The Doctrine of Al-Radd (Reversion) – The Doctrine of the Reversion means assignment of residue to the fixed sharers in addition to their fixed shares and according to their respective shares. Provided if there is no residuary sharer.
What does Will Al-Wasiyyah (bequest ) mean?
Answer: Will , Al-Wasiyyah or bequeath with regard to Islamic Inheritance means a bequeathed share which the deceased prescribed for a non-heir. The said share cannot not be greater than one third (1/3).
What does “Include Spouses in Al-Radd (Reversion)” mean?
Answer: Include Spouses in Al-Radd (Reversion) means include a spouse also while applying the Doctrine of the reversion, because, usually the spouses are not include while applying the doctrine of Reversion. A spouse (wife/husband) takes the residue when there is no other primary or residuary or Distant Kindred heir.