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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As long as we are on the subject of inheritance, a wife with no children inherits one-fourth of her husband's estate, one-eighth if she does have children.  In the latter case, the remaining seven eighths is divided among the children, with the boys receiving twice what the girls inherit.  If there are no sons, a male relative inherits one half of the remainder (if there is just one daughter) or one-third if there is more than one. In Islam there must always be a male heir.

This in part accounts for why mothers often show such strong preference for sons--if she has a son, only she and her children inherit without interference from her husband's male relatives.  Since the mother gets only one-eighth, she relies on her son(s) to support her--and also tends to indulge the boys to make sure they do so.  Girls often rely on their brothers for the same reason.

It also helps explain Muslim women's fondness for jewelry gifts.  Her jewelry is her property and is often bought and sold for the value of the gold or jewels (very little handicraft markup--the workmanship is pretty much just marketing).  It is a store of value--if her husband has bought her a pile of jewelry it is not considered as part of his estate and she can sell it off to augment her inheritance.

This is in the Koran, it is not sharia as one PP keeps saying about various other aspects of Muslim life.

By the way, if the wife dies, her husband inherits one quarter of her property, one half if there are no children.

Islamic inheritance laws explain a lot about Islamic family culture.

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You simply do not get it. The females are not out in the street, they are must be cared by male relatives. This is why inheritance laws gives men greater 
inheritance. You make it sound as if the male family members would nor want to, that it would be burdensome for them, and that this sort of system fosters a disingenuous relationship so the mother can be reassured she is cared for. That makes no sense. Lets say Islam split the inheritance money evenly between male and females. The mother, usually elderly now and not in the job market, would still need to be supported to some degree by her children. Would she indulge her daughters now too since they received an equal portion of her husbands inheritance?

In the US the wife gets the inheritance. In an Islamic state, the son is compelled to care for his mother. Why are you hell bent on twisting this in six different ways to make Islam look bad?[/quote]

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