Month: August 2022
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The Sunnah: The Second Source of Muslim Law
Traditions are narrations of law and religion which were communicated from one generation to another and thus became the practices in the society. They were for a long time neither written nor systematically arranged. The preaching and precepts could become an authoritative source of law when some competent and qualified person called Narrator, had narrated…
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The Holy Quran: The First Source of Muslim Law
The Shariah prescribes both religious and secular duties and sometimes retributive penalties for lawbreaking. By sources of any law means the original materials where the contents of that law are to be found and are made available to us. Study of these sources is necessary because without having any knowledge of the origin of a…
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Sources of Muslim Law
Shariah law is a religious law that lays down governing principles for spiritual, mental, and physical behaviour that must be followed by Muslims. Regarded as God’s command for Muslims, Sharia law is essentially Islam’s legal system. Muslims believe sharia refers to the perfect, immutable values understood only by God, while Islamic laws are those based…
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Succession Certificate
The term “succession” ordinarily means the transmission of the property and the transmissible rights and obligations of the deceased. The property may be ancestral or self-acquired property may devolves in two ways i.e., a) By testamentary succession i.e., the deceased died by executing will bequeathing his properties to specific heirs and b) By intestate succession…
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Letter of Administration
The property may be ancestral or self-acquired property may devolve in two ways i.e., a) By testamentary succession i.e., the deceased died by executing will bequeathing his properties to specific heirs and b) By intestate succession when the deceased died intestate without executing Will or any deeds. The transmission could either be by way of…
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A Probate Under the Indian Succession Act
The property may be ancestral or self-acquired property may devolve in two ways i.e., a) By testamentary succession i.e., the deceased died by executing will bequeathing his properties to specific heirs and b) By intestate succession when the deceased died intestate without executing Will or any deeds. The transmission could either be by way of…
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Administrator Under the Indian Succession Act
The property may be ancestral or self-acquired property may devolve in two ways i.e., a) By testamentary succession i.e., the deceased died by executing will bequeathing his properties to specific heirs and b) By intestate succession when the deceased died intestate without executing Will or any deeds. The transmission could either be by way of…
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Executor Under the Indian Succession Act, 1925
The property may be ancestral or self-acquired property may devolve in two ways i.e., a) By testamentary succession i.e., the deceased died by executing will bequeathing his properties to specific heirs and b) By intestate succession when the deceased died intestate without executing Will or any deeds. The transmission could either be by way of…
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Introduction to The Indian Succession Act, 1925
The term “succession” ordinarily means the transmission of the property and the transmissible rights and obligations of the deceased. The property may be ancestral or self-acquired property may devolves in two ways i.e., a) By testamentary succession i.e., the deceased died by executing will bequeathing his properties to specific heirs and b) By intestate succession…
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Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh
Sharia law is a religious law that lays down governing principles for spiritual, mental, and physical behaviour that must be followed by Muslims. Regarded as God’s command for Muslims, Sharia law is essentially Islam’s legal system. Muslims believe sharia refers to the perfect, immutable values understood only by God, while Islamic laws are those based…