Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawki Allam stressed that equating the inheritance between men and women is against Islamic Sharia (law), as scholars have always agreed on the fact that men receive double the amount of inheritance as women, based on a verse in the chapter Al-Nisa’a (The Women) in the Quran. Islam is extremely keen on equating men and women in the general accumulation of rights and duties, but not in every single aspect. “This call that some have launched to equate men and women, claiming that Islam ultimately grants men more inheritance than women – this is a false accusation. The husband takes a quarter, while the daughter takes half of her fortune, meaning the daughter takes double the husband.”“In other cases, women and men receive an equal inheritance. A day before Helali’s comments, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi ratified a new law that equates inheritance between men and women, causing huge controversy in the Arab region.

Source: Egypt Independent November 26, 2018 13:18 UTC