Please could Moulana assist in working out the following:
The deceased father leaves behind a house that is then sold for 1 million rands.
How will this amount be distributed to the heirs, comprising of the mother, two sons, and one daughter.
Jazakallah
Assalaamu alaykum
Each son will get R350,000
The daughter will get R175,000
The mother will get R125,000
And Allah Ta’ala knows best
Was salaam
Emraan Vawda
Answer
Assalaamu alaykum
Aqeeqah is not compulsory, but is beneficial for the newborn.
If it is carried out, it will be a means of warding off harm from the child.
It is not correct to term it as a “burden”.
In life sometimes we are affected with some forms of harm through no fault of ours. For example a child may get sick. This happens according to the Wisdom of Allah Ta’ala. We are taught that it will be efficacious to make Aqeeqah. That does not mean that the harm came about because a person did not make Aqeeqah. It is like saying that the child got sick because he did not take medicine. Rather, a child got sick because Allah Ta’ala has made sicknesses and illnesses part of the human experience. However as a follow up to this Divine system, which we sometimes call nature, we are expected to take medicine. But medicine, or the lack of it, is the not the cause.
Aqeeqah is both a celebration and also a form of remedy.
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