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Assalamu Alaikum. I was asked a question, is it true that writing a will is haram in Islam?

Well, I can tell you that the money that you have belongs to Allah.

Remember that. So he allows you temporary ownership of it while you're alive.

I can do whatever I want to do with my wealth on condition that it is within the pleasure of Allah.

And if ever I have spent something wrong way or I've earned it through wrong means,

I need to seek the forgiveness of Allah and repair the damage. Okay. Now,

the minute you die, Allah says, your wealth will be divided the way we want it to be divided.

Right. But we only give you a certain portion that we would allow you to give people whom we

have not already decided will be getting a portion. So if Allah decided that some people are going

to get a portion from your wealth, you cannot increase that. You cannot decrease that.

But if Allah did not speak about certain categories, your friends, your, you know,

distant relatives, someone who's not in the picture, a Muslim, a non-Muslim, whoever it may be,

you want to give them something you're allowed within one third of your wealth to write up a

wasiyya or a bequest. Some people call this a will, right. So you write it up up to one third of

whatever you've left. So you say, I want so much to go to so and so and so and so and so.

As for the following categories, you can never write for them because Allah has already given them a

share if they are alive at the time of your death. Who are they? Your son and your daughter,

your father and your mother, your spouse, there goes. So the husband or the wife, father, mother,

son or daughter, those categories you can never increase or decrease. Allah decides what they're

going to get after you die. If you're alive and when you're alive, you can give them whatever

you wish. You can give your mom, your dad, your relatives, your brothers, your sisters, etc.

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