Mohammed Hijab – Is Islamic Inheritance Mathematically Coherent

			Come on over council guys, first and foremost, I want to thank you for bringing me up to 50,000
subscribers. May Allah keep me sincere and keep you guys watching my videos and finding them
interesting because obviously we do them to to benefit the community at large, and to try to educate
people about Islam etc. Now, having said that, I wanted to make a quick, quick video, maybe about
four or five minutes. Obviously, I like to speak a little bit more than I say I do about inheritance
in the coherence of inheritance. Now, in a nutshell, does some some basically attacks against Islam
through orientalists.
		

			On the fractions, or the proportions of inheritance left behind, I believe that they're very foolish
attacks, actually. And that's why I don't really use that much frankly, not many people attack Islam
like this because
		

			logically, it's not a strong argument and they know it.
		

			But if you look at chapter four, verse 11, onwards, it talks about inheritance and inheritance
distribution. Yeah. And also the Hadith tells us how to kind of divide the wealth. Now the question
is this, what if? What if the inheritance distribution goes over one? What if it goes over one?
		

			Or what if? So that other words, if you add up all the fractions, it becomes an input what you call
an improper fraction where the numerator is more than the denominator? What do you do in that
situation?
		

			And really, and truly, this is actually an established thing in the Jewish in jurisprudence. So in
other words, Islam has a way of dealing with inheritance if it becomes an improper fraction. So let
me give an example. This is actually a very well known example, I've tried to write this down.
Because
		

			obviously, it's it's notable example is called l min barrier. This is one example of a min barrier.
And the reason why it's called a min barrier is because I live now, Vitaly was on the minbar of the
pulpit. And he kind of gave instructions on how to deal with this situation. We know Allium Natalia
was an extension of what the prophet SAW Selim told us to follow. So his his rulings or Sahaba, they
know how to deal with this. So for instance, we know that a mother gets one sixth and some mother
and a father both get one sixth in certain circumstances, and the mother can get one third and
certain circumstances in terms of inheritance. If you have
		

			three, let's say three doors, or more, three doors, four doors, five doors, then they get two thirds
of the inheritance and a wife gets one eighth of the inheritance.
		

			But when you add all of that up together, it becomes an improper fraction. Okay? So when you add up,
like, for example, one sixth,
		

			one, six, plus one, plus two thirds plus one eighth, it becomes an improper fraction. So the
question is what to do in that situation? Okay, so I am in Berea would dictate because remember,
this comes from Allium nibble pilot, and there's something called allama tree as well, which comes
from
		

			these are all things that come from Sahaba. And, and established precedents from the time of prefer.
		

			So what happens, what you would do is you would change the improper fraction. Yeah. So for instance,
it usually would have the common denominator, like the lowest common multiple of all of the
fractions, I've mentioned to you that one third, or sorry, two thirds, one, eight, etc, would be 24.
Okay, that will be the lowest common multiple, but that will be changed to 27. Now what that would
mean to the denominator, that would change from 24 to 27. And every other person would get a,
		

			a lesser amount. So for example, the mother would get rather than
		

			rather than one sixth mother and father would get rather than one sixth, they get four out of 27,
which is equivalent to about 14.8%.
		

			And the the two daughters,
		

			or let's say two or three, or whatever it may be less than say, if it's $2, or three, two, or
whatever, then they will get 29.6% rather than
		

			puppet puppet.
		

			One of them have an inflow of 3.3%, because it give it to first otherwise, and the wife will get
three out of 27, which is 11%, rather than 12.5%, which would be one eighth. So in other words, in
the case where it goes over one, yeah, that's what would happen. Now the question is how comes? It
can go over one, how can there be an improper fraction? Well, the answer is this. It can go over one
because there's a mathematical way of dealing with how it can go over one just like it when it goes
under one, right. So for example, if a man leaves behind three doors, yeah, and no one else, a man
leaves behind three doors, no one else.
		

			So what's gonna happen? It's gonna be two thirds. What's the third? what's what's gonna happen to
that remaining third? So that remaining third
		

			will go back to the doors. Okay, we'll go back to the doors. So, in other words, if a man leaves
behind, you're not gonna throw that money away. Do you get it? So the point
		

			Really I'm trying to make you is there is a mechanism of dealing with if it goes over and under one
and the premise of Okay, it has to be one, otherwise, it's mathematically incoherent is a false
premise, because the state stays the same. So for example, someone has 100 pounds, that 100 pounds
does not is not required to go up or down, someone leaves behind 100 pounds. And for example, in the
case of minbari, yeah, yeah, that the, we said, in a normal situation, say that the wife would get
12.5% in this situation should get 11%. So it would go down, if it goes over one, if it goes under
one, they'll get more money. So depending upon that situation, where if it goes over and under one
		

			the inheritance can, will vary accordingly.
		

			And so I was okay with and that's unfair, or whatever. But that's actually in built within the
system of Islam or the inheritance system. So, in a nutshell, there's always a way of dealing with
it. And the fractions, they do add up together, and you will be able to find the
		

			lowest common multiple, in most cases. And the truth is, in most cases, it will be near to one. If
you add up these fractions together. In most cases, in most scenarios, it will be close to one.
		

			Anyways, I hope you understand what I'm saying here.
		

			And this is a very weak attack anyways, and that's why lots of people will even try and use it
because they know that this is an easy answer to that question. But just in case people were
struggling because I had a conversation with one person in speaker's corner before about this, and I
think a lot of people got confused. But this is what happens if it goes over one these are these are
the mechanisms by which and through which Islam has facilitated for us to be able to
		

			basically reason the inheritance the Islamic inheritance. Thank you one more time for bringing up to
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