KULLIYYAH OF INFORMATION AND

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

SEM 3 LE 4700 SECTION 1

ENGLISH FOR OCCUPATIONAL PURPOSES
(ICT)

MEMO REPORT
FARAID FIRM

MADAM AZURA BT ABDUL RAZAK

Group members:

NADZIRAH BT KAMARUL BAHRIN 1419168

NUWAILAH BT AYUB 1416006
RAQIAH HOUSSAINI 1218672
WAHEEDA USMANI 1212004
HAZIMAH BT SAIRIN 1422330
 CONTENT

1. INTRODUCTION 2

i. Background of Study 3

ii. Problem Statement 3

iii. Objectives 4

2. FINDINGS 4

3. DISCUSSION 7

4. CONCLUSION 9

5. RECOMMENDATION 9

REFERENCES 10

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TO : Project Manager
FROM : Faraid Team
DATE : August 06, 2018
SUBJECT : RECOMMEND A SOLUTION FOR OUR WEBSITE

1. INTRODUCTION

Wealth distribution from the Islamic perspective is which Islam recognizes economic

inequalities among its people but does not let them grow wider. In Islam rules, wealth is

important and necessary but much more important is the way in which wealth or income is

distributed. The guiding principle is that there should be more production and fairer

distribution of wealth or income, so the increased wealth or income might lead to equitable

division among the Muslim people. Wealth or income should not be concentrated or focused

in the hands of only a few members of Muslim.

The Muslim law of inheritance is an effective measure in checking accumulation of

wealth in fewer hands and in spreading it out among the larger section of the community. To

achieve fairer distribution of income, one of method that Islam applying is by Faraid.

According to the Muslim law of inheritance, if man or women who dies, then the property of

the deceased after settling his debts will be divided among his near relatives in proportion to

faraid. However, if the deceased is without any relative, the state will take over the property

so that other citizen will benefit.

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 i. Background of Study

Majority of Muslims nowadays is not aware about faraid knowledge. Most of them do

not know how to distribute the properties of the deceased to the heirs based on the shariah

law. This cause from lack of media emphasis about faraid knowledge in good explanation

and easy to understand. Some of the society divided the properties in a wrong ways and cause

havoc in family relationship and society. Some of society as well consult with lawyer and

faraid consultant. This way might use some money and take time. Thus, this web application

will give the pictures of faraid knowledge so that people could get a raw information

regarding faraid and can proceed to the process of distribution of the properties immediately.

ii. Problem Statement

For Muslim people, the Quran and Al hadith provide absolute guidance on how to

distribute wealth among family members and relatives of a person who pass away.

Distributing the property correctly requires thorough studies or expert guidance, because the

rules stated are in details and distinctive to each person. Besides that, it is difficult for normal

people who do not have the comprehension on Islamic inheritance to implement the

distribution of inherited assets that was mentioned in the Quran. Hence, there is needed

someone and some facilities to help the heirs, so that can solve the problems who has the

necessary knowledge and knowledge with thorough understanding. Normally, when someone

passes away, his or her relatives will refer to someone who has as much as necessary

knowledge to determine the distribution, which is costly and time consuming, so FaraidFirm

was developed and it can solve the distribution problem.

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 iii. Objectives

FaraidFirm is a company which provides consultancy services on distribution of

inheritance in a family fairly and with justice. Especially, FaraidFirm company is the

provider or developer of the website to facilitate the Muslim families in during dividing of

deceased’s properties. This website includes a calculator to calculate the income among of

the heirs correctly and fairly. Thus, our company objectives are to become the leading

company in field of consultancy services with having a high quality.

2. FINDINGS

A general short survey from FaraidFirm has been conducted on 17 respondents who

are students as sample. This survey is objectively to gather data based on their general

knowledge about the distribution of Islamic inheritance (Faraid) and its enhancement with

ICT elements. Both table below are the contents of survey and respondents recorded answers:

Demographic:

1- Gender Male (6) Female (11)

2- Marital status Single (17) Married (~)

3- Employment status Students (17) Worker (~) Non-Worker (~)

Table 1: Demographic

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Questionnaires: Yes No Online Verbal

4- Do you know what Faraid is? 10 7 ~ ~

5- Do you have an experience 10 7 ~ ~

losing any family members?

6- Have you ever used any 16 1 ~ ~

Faraid websites before?

7- Do you know how to 2 15 ~ ~

distribute the property following
Faraid law?

8- Do you think the Faraid 15 2 ~ ~

website needs multi-language
support?

9- Do you find it helpful to have 14 3 ~ ~

specific website/platform for
knowing Faraid?

10- Do you prefer having online 5 5 3 4

consultation or verbal
consultation?

11- If we set up our online 14 3 ~ ~

service, do you think that will
be helpful?

12- Have you consulted anyone 2 15 ~ ~

for property distribution before?

13- Do you want an application 13 4 ~ ~

for our services?

Table 2: Faraid and ICT

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 Management in assets and liabilities is vital for every patriarch or a head of family

before he deceased and left his family behind. It is also considered as obligatory because once

he died without a proper wealth management for his family, a huge conflict will strike his

family in future.

Rahman and Azizi (2010, cited in Marhusin, et al., 2014) highlighted that a news had

been reported about more RM40 billions of unclaimed assets at Amanah Raya Berhad (ARB)

due to lack of strategic plan for family future by patriarchs before they died. ARB (Amanah

Raya Berhad, 2014) is an authoritative government agency who is responsible in property or

liability management of deceased.

Besides money, a kind of property that usually related with the distribution of

inheritance is estate planning (Alma'amun, 2010). The patriarch will set each of his estates to

be inherited by one of his family members who is the most suitable candidate. In general,

only patriarch and trusted lawyers know the flow of the strategic of Wasiyyah for Muslims or

wills for Non-Muslims. At the stated time after patriarch’s death, Wasiyyah or wills will be

exposed towards family members.

Beforehand, secrecy is really important for patriarch in distribution of properties

throughout his family members with fair and justice. If not, family members will be asking

and fighting their rights for his left assets. Nevertheless, disclosing assets and liabilities can

impact the family members in different manners. Disclosing assets may lead to greediness

and arrogant inside relatives if huge amount being involved. Meanwhile, disclosing liabilities

will made relatives suffering poverty due to insufficient money for payback. According to

(Marhusin, et al., 2014), “a greater loss is waiting if we die without being able to disclose

these secrets to the family members that we trust first”. (p.4)

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 In a nutshell, inheritance management is crucial and and should be prepared wisely.

The future of next generation inside a family is depend on it. Therefore, in compliance with

syari’ah law for distribution of inheritance (Faraid) and emergence of ICT, FaraidFirm will

improve its recent professional services towards a betterment for clients and the company

itself.

3. DISCUSSION

Based on the feedback by respondents, 10 of them have a basic understanding of

Faraid and had experience of losing any family members. However, most of the respondents

answered that they do not know to distribute the property following Faraid law especially

with courts’ procedure in Malaysia. Usually they will depends on lawyer to settle the problem

that are related to the deceased.

There are few mobile application and websites that are built to overcome this problem

such as FaST Guide, iFaraid and Islamic Inheritance Calculator Al Miiras. Each applications

has their own unique characteristics that differ the product from another such as the system

adaptation and user interface.

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Product System functionality User Interface Adaptation

FaST Guide - User friendly - Attractive and - Provide full

- Clear calculation easy to use calculation
interface

iFaraid - Simplicity and - The interface of - Arrange a better

minimalist the product is not formula in order
- Use icon to show really attractive to get the precise
the heirs and the font used answer and
in the system is output.
not a professional
font.
- Review of the
product said the
calculation is
misleading and
little bit wrong.

Islamic Inheritance - Equipped with - Unknown - Order the

Calculator Al- information of the developer information
Miiras cases and rules - The information properly.
not ordered
properly

Islamic Inheritance - Provide - Not user friendly - Accessible

Calculator calculations from a - Cannot accessible anytime
Waqaslaw few scholars - User friendly

Table 3: Comparison table

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4. CONCLUSION

To be concluded, this web application will introduce a minimalist and simple guide

and calculation about faraid so that people will expose to faraid knowledge. Faraid is an

important knowledge that almost ignored by muslims in this world as the Prophet PBUH said

“Learn faraid knowledge because it is really part of your religion and teach it to people

because it is indeed part of knowledge, and indeed it will be forgotten and indeed it is first

knowledge deprived of my people.”- hadith narrated by Hakim and Abu Daud from Abu

Hurairah. Not only that, the system will only be deployed using the web based system. It is

also an easy way for anyone to learn about faraid. The responsive layout of the website will

ease the users to interact with the website using their devices without to install any

prerequisites apps. Last but not least, hopefully the system can be accomplished its objectives

and give benefit to ummah and all user.

5. RECOMMENDATION

The FaraidFirm is online service consultancy which aims to distribute the assets of a

dead person properly based on Quran and sunnah to its hiers .The developers of FaraidFirm

company provide this online system because of comforting people as the people find

technology as a tool to reach their goals in an easy way for all the aspects of their life. As the

system currently has online consultancy and a calculator functions ,its better to add some

more features to improve the system such as online documentation which the users can

submit their Wasiyyat documents and get the feedbacks about how the distribution of

wealths done properly.

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REFERENCES

Alma'amun, S. (2010, March). Islamic Extate Planning: Malaysian Experience. Kyoto

Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies, 3(2), 165-185. doi:10.14989/123298

ARB (Amanah Raya Berhad). (2014). "Amanah Raya". Retrieved August 3, 2018 from

http://www.arb.com.my

As-Salihin Trustee Berhad., 2017. FaST Guide. Retrieved August 3, 2018 from

http://www.as-salihin.com/en/fast-guide

Islamic Inheritance Calculator Al-miiras. Retrieved August 3, 2018 from

http://www.inheritancecalculator.net/

Marhusin, M. F., Nazri, M. K., Rahmat, N. A., Isa, M. I., Rodzi, M. A., Ahmad, S. U., &

Azmi, A. S. (2014). Need for ICT based secrets management., (pp. 2-4). Retrieved

August 3, 2018 from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325440063

M. Waqas, 2017. Islamic Inheritance Calculator. Retrieved August 3, 2018 from

http://www.waqaslaw.com/index.php

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