Practical guides on Faraid and UK law for Muslim families, with worked examples, statute references, and steps you can act on.
Walk through every step of the calculator — from entering estate details and adding family members to reviewing your free distribution and downloading your Solicitor Instruction Letter.
Yes — if every heir freely agrees. How the Deed of Variation works, what happens when one heir refuses, Awl and Radd explained, and why a will is still essential.
Equal treatment of children, marad al-mawt, the HMRC gift-with-reservation trap, IHT 7-year rule, and the hotchpot collision between Islamic and English law that no one else explains.
Nikah-only marriages, small estates, pensions, Scotland, non-Muslim spouses, inheritance tax, the 1975 Act, and Deed of Variation — the complete deep dive into what happens when a Muslim dies without a will.
Wasiyyah drafting, the 1/3 bequest rule, debts and funeral costs priority, and what the Wills Act 1837 requires for your Islamic will to be legally enforceable in England and Wales.
Without a valid Islamic will, English intestacy rules apply — not Faraid. A side-by-side comparison on a £500,000 estate shows how a surviving mother loses her entire Qurʾanic share, and what to do about it.
Most Faraid cases produce identical results across all four schools. This guide explains exactly where they diverge — primarily the grandfather–sibling dispute — with a worked £120,000 example showing each madhab side by side.
Joint tenancy passes your share to the surviving owner, bypassing Faraid entirely. Learn how to check your ownership type and convert to tenants in common using Form SEV.
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