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Death and Wills The Majlis Vol 24 No 12, p.4

Among the heirs inheriting a property is the mother of the inheriting children.

Question

Among the heirs inheriting a property is the mother of the inheriting children. The heirs are all adults. The property is very valuable and all the heirs want to sell and get their respective shares. However, their mother refuses to vacate the premises. In so doing, she is preventing all the heirs from their rightful shares. She insists to live in the property although the children are making available a comfortable house for her. In these circumstances is it permissible to legally evict the mother?

Answer

The very idea of children evicting their mother from the house is satanically callous. Regardless of her injustice for which she will have to answer to Allah Ta'ala, it is haraam for the children to evict their mother. Are they her children or are they dogs which have no recognition of their parents. Every Muslim knows that Jannat lies under the feet of one's mother. But for people nowadays the carrion crumbs of this dunya have greater importance than Jannat. That is because the Deen is a hobby for them. Never ever can a child fulfil the rights of his / her mother even if he/she slaves for her his / her entire life. It is haraam to evict the mother.

break down. Encourage her. Speak politely and affectionately to her about the need to wear Niqaab. Explain to her that even the dead body of a woman has to be wrapped in six shrouds. Then despite being so fully covered, a sheet is held over the grave when lowering her body to prevent strangers from looking at it.

Explain to her that Noor from the heavens settles on a woman who adopts rigid Hijaab (with niqaab) in the presence of strange (ghair mahram) males. Also mention that the woman whose face is exposed, thus enabling other men to stare at her, is cursed by Allah Ta'ala and His Angels. Therefore, Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said:

"Allah curses the one who looks (i.e. the man) and the one at whom he looks (i.e. the woman with exposed face)."

A woman who attracts the gazes of men with her exposed face and even with her gaudy garments, is constantly under the Wrath of Allah Ta'ala. Tell your wife that when Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) asked his beloved daughter, Hadhrat Faatimah (Radhiyallahu anha): "What is best for a woman?", she responded: "That no man should look at her nor should she look at any man." Delightfully, Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi w asallam) responded: "Faatimah is a portion of me."

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