97 - الْوَارِثُ

[Bint e Aisha]

الْوَارِثُ

 

Translation 

الْوَارِثُ is translated as The Inheritor of All and The Supreme Heir.

 

Definition

It is the One to Whom all possessions return after the possessor disappears. 

 

وَارِث mean an inheritor of someone who dies (heir). Allah ta’ala is the Haqeeqi Maalik, the True Owner of everything so what does it mean by Allah ta’ala being The Inheritor?

 

Allah ta’ala gives temporary ownership of things and when the person leaves this world it goes to someone else but at the end of the universe everything will come back to Allah ta’ala and in this way He is the True Inheritor.

 

In the Quran

 

الْوَارِثُ is mentioned twice as a verb and twice as a noun in the Qur’an.

 

وَإِنَّا لَنَحْنُ نُحْيِي وَنُمِيتُ وَنَحْنُ الْوَارِثُونَ 

Lo! and it is We, even We, Who quicken and give death, and We are the Inheritor [Surah Hijr: 23]

 

إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَرِثُ الْأَرْضَ وَمَنْ عَلَيْهَا وَإِلَيْنَا يُرْجَعُونَ

Ultimately, all things will perish and it is We, Who will inherit the earth and all that is on it, and to Us shall they return.[Surah Maryam:40]

 

وَمَا لَكُمْ أَلَّا تُنْفِقُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَلِلَّهِ مِيرَاثُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ

What is the matter with you that you do not spend in the Way of Allah, whereas to Allah belongs the inheritance of the heavens and the earth? [Surah Hadeed: 10]

 

Inheritance need not be Tangible

ثُمَّ أَوْرَثْنَا الْكِتَابَ الَّذِينَ اصْطَفَيْنَا مِنْ عِبَادِنَا

Then We gave the Scripture as inheritance unto those whom We elected of our bondmen [Surah Faatir:32]

 

Inheritance does not have to be something tangible. The “Bondsmen” refers to the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wasallam and Scholars say the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wasallam was given the Qur’an and after him it was passed on through the generations of Muslims. The Ulama are the “Waarithul Ambiyaa” – inheritors of the Prophets as they inherited the knowledge of the Book of Allah ta’ala. The Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wasallam did not leave any inheritance behind. His true inheritance was the knowledge of the Qur’an. Therefore ‘Ilm (Knowledge) is an inheritance.

 

Counsel

Inheritance laws should be treated as important and adhered to. Many do not regard the laws of inheritance as important and do not implement them at all or implement them unfairly.

 

We should know our rights in inheritance and we should know that Allah ta’ala is The True Inheritor.  

 

Du’a made by Zakariyyah AS for a child

رَبِّ لَا تَذَرْنِي فَرْدًا وَأَنْتَ خَيْرُ الْوَارِثِينَ

O my Rabb! Do not let me remain childless even though You are the best of inheritors.
[Surah Ambiyaa:89]

 

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