Islamic wills with the shares worked out and cited, then drafted
A family's wishes and Islamic inheritance rules have to meet a will that English law will honour. Azmora works out the fixed shares, shows the source for each, and drafts the will with the legal formalities checked.
- Islamic rules do not apply by themselvesGOV.UK, who inherits if someone dies without a will
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Islamic rules do not apply by themselves
In England and Wales, if someone dies without a valid will, the intestacy rules decide who inherits. A will is how the shares a family intends take effect in law.
The shares take careful working
Fixed shares depend on which relatives survive and who is blocked by whom. Worked by hand across a family tree it is slow, and an error is hard to spot afterwards.
Schools of thought differ
Hanafi and Hanbali scholars reach different answers on some questions, such as how a grandmother is treated. A calculation has to say which view it applies.
Bequests sit beside the shares
A bequest (wasiyyah) has to be reconciled with the fixed shares, and then drafted into a will that meets the legal formalities.
What Azmora does about it
When you work out the shares
Choose the Hanafi or Hanbali view. Spouse, children, parents and siblings are covered, then more distant relatives when no closer heir survives, each result cited to source.
When the client wants a bequest
Bequests are worked out and drafted beside the fixed shares, on the same matter.
Before the will is signed
The same checks as every Azmora will run: witness and beneficiary conflicts, capacity and the clauses each gift needs.
Documents for this: Islamic Wills, Wills
Where Azmora stops
- Azmora calculates and cites. The scholar or solicitor advising the family decides which view applies and signs the work off. It does not issue religious rulings.
- The calculation covers the relatives listed above. A family outside them needs your own working.
- Wills still need signing in ink with two witnesses present.
Questions you would ask
Do you cover bequests as well as the fixed shares?
Which relatives does the full calculation cover?
Does Azmora give a ruling?
Azmora is also for legal firms, licensed conveyancers, accountants, financial advisers, trust and estate practitioners and will writers.
Page updated 14 October 2026.
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