Islamic Wills & Estate Planning in Auckland

A free community will-writing assistance service offered by the North Shore AhlulBayt Centre in Auckland, serving New Zealand's Shia Muslim community. The centre helps people record a personal will on an official New Zealand form so that their property is distributed according to Islamic inheritance law rather than New Zealand's default intestacy rules. A named centre member, Dr Abdulmonem Nasser, is assigned the duty of helping people write their wills, with direct phone contact published on the centre's website ((09) 4422321 and 021 127 1162). This is personal assistance rather than a downloadable template, which suits people who want their specific family circumstances talked through, and it is the only will-writing service we could verify that approaches inheritance from the Shia (Jafari) jurisprudential tradition in New Zealand.

A free, New Zealand-specific Islamic will template published by Darul Ifta New Zealand, the fatwa department of Darul Uloom Arabia Islamia NZ (a faculty of the Auckland Islamic Trust), run by Mufti Muhammad Irshad Motara. The template is actively maintained: the current version on the contracts page is Last-Will-revised-2026.pdf, uploaded May 2026. It directs executors to distribute the estate in the Islamic order of priority: funeral expenses first, then debts, then the wasiyyah (Islamic bequest, capped at one third of the net estate and reduced proportionately if exceeded), with the residue distributed to Islamic heirs under the Islamic Law of Succession. It includes a clause making a designated Muslim judicial body or expert binding on questions of Islamic law, and a trust clause holding any minor child's inheritance with the administrators until majority rather than in the guardian's fund. The same site publishes fatwa guidance on wills, including the ruling that bequests cannot be made in favour of fixed-share heirs and the distinction between a wasiyya and a lifetime gift (hiba).