Title: Eligibility of Share in Inheritance for non-Muslims... Question: Kindly advise me if the ELIGIBLE recipients of inheritance are COMPLETELY turned off from Islam or they elected to choose religion other than Islam EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE BORN MUSLIMS AS DESCSENDANTS OF THE DECEASED, can they be EXCLUDED partially or totally ACCORDING TO SHARI'AH from getting their distribution from the inheritance money left by the deceased? Ja Zaak Allaah . Answer: According to the opinion of most of the Muslim jurists, they shall be excluded from inheritance and shall not receive their share prescribed by the Qur'an. In my opinion, however, every inheritor, whose share has been prescribed by the Qur'an, shall receive his prescribed share (in full), even if he has converted to another religion. Regards, November 8, 2000