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Summary
Al-Sha'rawi holds that dividing an inheritance spreads wealth "in a flowing way" among sons and daughters so that it circulates in society, unlike a forced dispersal that surprises children with deprivation. 1
Effort and its fruit
He links a father's labour on the land with his children's right to its fruit, and says God placed in a father the tenderness that moves him to work for his children. 1
Flowing and forced dispersal
He gives the example of a man who owns a hundred feddans and has sons and daughters: after his death the estate passes to them gradually, and each prepares for what he receives. A forced dispersal leaves them unprepared. 2
Resentment
He warns that resentment must not appear in society, because when it does it undoes every good, and he says the rules of inheritance were set to preserve a dignified life for the weak and for women. 3
Not checked here
This is the author's social reflection and has not been checked against sociological or economic sources. No academic reading is set out; one is needed (needs_source).
Connections
People and things also explored
Kalala (collateral heirs)· Bequest (wasiyya)· Women's inheritance· Arba'un 43 — give the fixed shares to their people· The science of inheritance shares· Taj Mahal· Abawan (the two parents)· Justice among co-wives
Sources
- Sha'rawi's Khawatir around the Holy Quran, volume one (scan copy) , p. 2049
- Sha'rawi's Khawatir around the Holy Quran, volume one (scan copy) , p. 2050
- Sha'rawi's Khawatir around the Holy Quran, volume one (scan copy) , p. 2051
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islam.museum contributors. “Gradual dispersal of property (al-tafattut al-insiyabi)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/al-tafattut-al-insiyabi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.