Heir .... gardens-Heir ... .. On the Heir, it is also similar on him 1 and if he have no son and his parents are his heirs, then to his mother appertaineth the third; and if he have brethren, then to his mother appertaineth the sixth, after any legacy he may have bequeathed, or debt (hath been paid). 1 And if a man or a woman have a distant heir (having left neither parent nor child), and he (or she) have a brother or a sister (only on the mother's side) then to each of them twain (the brother and the sister) the sixth, 1 O ye who believe! It is not lawful for you forcibly to inherit the women 1 If a man die childless and he have a sister, hers is half the heritage, and he would have inherited from her had she died childless 1 Is it not an indication to those who inherit the land after its people (who thus reaped the consequence of evil doing) that, if We will, We can smite them for their sins and print upon their hearts so that they hear not? 1 Lo! the earth is Allah's. He giveth it for an inheritance to whom He will. 1 And We caused the folk who were despised to inherit the eastern parts of the land and the western parts thereof which We had blessed. 1 And a generation hath succeeded them who inherited the Scriptures. 1 ....

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