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Yasir Qadhi

What Is To Be Done With The Inheritance of A Person who is Mentally Impaired? Ask Shaykh YQ #177

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Islam, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:04.1

Sister Sharmila from Bangladesh. She emails and she says that her father passed away

0:10.9

And she has a number of siblings. One of those siblings is special need and is mentally impaired and

0:19.8

She is now saying what is to be done with the inheritance of her father?

0:24.0

Does a child with disabilities? Well, he's no longer a child. So this is an adult

0:29.1

Does the adult with disabilities? Mental disabilities?

0:33.0

Get the same inheritance as the rest of the children. That is the question that our sister is asking

1:00.1

And the response is that we're firstly talking about mental impairment such that to the level that

1:10.1

Finances cannot be managed right if a person is you know

1:13.6

There are some people that are maybe slightly autistic

1:15.8

But you know they understand and maybe even they're super smart in some areas, right?

1:20.1

But maybe their communication skills might be a little bit lacking

1:23.3

We're not talking about that category much less a physical impediment

1:27.3

Somebody that is not able to walk properly or somebody has visual or hearing issues, but mentally they are normal

1:32.9

In fact, they need more money more than anybody else

1:36.2

So we're not talking about any type of impediment

1:40.4

Except a mental impediment that causes a person to not be able to function normally in society to the point that they cannot manage

1:51.0

Money right so there are people that you know, Allah has tested them and their families that they're not able to do that

1:56.5

So if that is the level of the impairment, then in this case, I say that

2:03.5

Technically this person does inherit the money technically

2:07.6

It is that person's but that person will not be handed the money right rather the siblings can one of them

2:14.8

Who is trustworthy can take charge of managing it on his behalf and that sibling or anybody else will then spend of that money

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