The Women
4. An-Nisā’
النساء

Al Nisā’ (The Women)

ٱلنِّسَاء

4:12
4:12

wa-lakum niṣfu taraka ʾazwājukum ʾin lam yakun lahunna waladun fa-ʾin kāna lahunna waladun fa-lakumu r-rubuʿu mimmā tarakna min baʿdi waṣiyyatin yūṣīna bihā ʾaw daynin wa-lahunna r-rubuʿu mimmā taraktum ʾin lam yakun lakum waladun fa-ʾin kāna lakum waladun fa-lahunna th-thumunu mimmā taraktum min baʿdi waṣiyyatin tūṣūna bihā ʾaw daynin wa-ʾin kāna rajulun yūrathu kalālatan ʾawi mraʾatun wa-lahū ʾakhun ʾaw ʾukhtun fa-li-kulli wāḥidin minhumā s-sudusu fa-ʾin kānū ʾakthara min dhālika fa-hum shurakāʾu th-thuluthi min baʿdi waṣiyyatin yūṣā bihā ʾaw daynin ghayra muḍārrin waṣiyyatan mina llāhi wa-llāhu ʿalīmun ḥalīmun

For you shall be a half of what your wives leave, if they have no children; but if they have children, then for you shall be a fourth of what they leave, after [paying off] any bequest they may have made or any debt [they may have incurred]. And for them [it shall be] a fourth of what you leave, if you have no children; but if you have children, then for them shall be an eighth of what you leave, after [paying off] any bequest you may have made or any debt [you may have incurred]. If a man or woman is inherited by siblings and has a brother or a sister, then each of them shall receive a sixth; but if they are more than that, then they shall share in one third, after [paying off] any bequest he may have made or any debt [he may have incurred] without prejudice. [This is] an enjoinment from Allah, and Allah is all-knowing, all-forbearing.

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