Leaving a Will: Taking Extra Beyond a Will’s Original Amount Due to Inflation

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Leaving a Will: Taking Extra Beyond a Will’s Original Amount Due to Inflation

English:

Question #1860:

Having decided on the division of our joint inheritance from our father, which he in turn had inherited from his father so that our uncle and grandmother have a share in it, they produced a thirty-year-old will, stating that, besides the share of the inheritance, they should be given a certain amount of money of his estate. However, they paid themselves the specified amount of money at the current rates. The result has been that they got much more than the original amounts that had been provided for in the will. Are they legally justified in what they have done?

Answer #1860:

In the given case, it is necessary that the decrease in purchasing power of money is paid.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Leaving a Will