Islamic Wills in Laval

How do I make an Islamic will in Laval?

The same way as anywhere in Quebec — and that is the point worth understanding. There is no Laval will law. Wills are provincial, so the rules that decide whether your will is valid are Quebec’s. What is genuinely local is everything around the will: which mosques here can perform a janazah, where they bury, and what it costs.

1. Work out the shares. The faraid calculator gives every heir’s fraction under the school you follow, with a written report you can hand to a drafter.
2. Meet Quebec’s formalities. This is the part that decides whether the document works at all — valid (the Quebec formalities in full).
3. Check your beneficiary designations. An RRSP, a TFSA or a life policy with a named beneficiary may pass outside the estate under Canadian law — whether it also sits outside the tarikah is disputed among contemporary scholars, so do not assume it escapes the shares.
4. Have it drafted. The Registry does not draft wills. Treadstone Law, an independent Ontario firm, handles the drafting side.
5. Record where it is kept — free, and it is what lets your executor find it.

The Quebec rules that decide whether it works

Deeper: making a valid will · dying without one · probate · challenges.

Janazah services in Laval

An Islamic will usually records burial wishes — ghusl, kafan, burial without delay. A janazah needs physical facilities: a mortuary, cold storage, a washing room. Not every mosque has them.

We have not confirmed a janazah service at any of the 3 Laval mosques we list. That is a gap in our data, not a statement that none exists — see the directory entries and call to ask.

Where Laval’s mosques bury

Burial grounds in Laval

Hamza Muslim Cemetery (Centre Azzahra). A third Laval Muslim burial ground, run in association with Centre Azzahra, whose funeral home is at 3642A rue Fleury Est, Montreal H1H 2S4. It sits at 1101 Montee Masson, immediately next to the Islamic Cemetery of Quebec at 1099 Montee Masson - the two are separate operations at adjacent addresses, and at least one directory has conflated them by listing the ICQ cemetery at 1101. NEEDS VERIFICATION: no working website was found for this cemetery, so everything here comes from the Association de la Sepulture Musulmane du Quebec listing. Whether it is entirely Muslim or a section, its size, plot availability and pricing are all unconfirmed - a phone call is required before relying on this entry.

Islamic Cemetery of Quebec — an entirely Muslim cemetery, plots available. French: Cimetiere islamique du Quebec. Owned and operated by the Islamic Centre of Quebec (Centre Islamique du Quebec, ICQ), whose mosque is at 2520 Chemin Laval in Saint-Laurent, Montreal - the cemetery and the mosque are the same organisation, so a family may be directed to either number. The organisation describes it as 'the first and only one on a large scale fully equipped graveyard in Canada where Muslims are buried' (their own claim, not independently verified). Unlike the Ottawa Muslim Cemetery, this one is fully end-to-end: it collects the body from hospital, home or morgue, performs ghusl and kafan, supplies the casket, holds salat ul janazah, transports to the cemetery, and digs the grave and buries. Postal code H7C 1S3 is corroborated by third-party business directories; the organisation's own page gives the address as '1099 Montee Masson, St. Vincent de Paul, Laval East' without a postal code.

Muslim Cemetery of Montreal (Magnus Poirier, Laval) — a Muslim section within a wider cemetery. A dedicated Muslim section inside the Magnus Poirier / Cimetiere de Laval grounds on chemin du Bas Saint-Francois, and the main alternative to the Islamic Cemetery of Quebec for Montreal-area families. Also referred to as the Cimetiere Musulman de Montreal and the Cimetiere musulman de Laval; the associated Muslim funeral operator is Dar Al Imane / Centre funeraire musulman de Montreal, whose funeral home is at 6520 rue St-Denis, Montreal H2S 2R9. NEEDS VERIFICATION: both the Magnus Poirier partner page and Dar Al Imane's own site (centrefmm.com) returned HTTP 403 to automated fetches, so this entry rests on the Association de la Sepulture Musulmane du Quebec listing. A third-party page reports the section was established in 2015 - unconfirmed. Size, plot availability and cemetery-specific pricing all need a phone call. Note that a second Muslim funeral operator, Dar Al Haq (Centre Funeraire Musulman, 9101 boulevard Louis-H.-La Fontaine, Anjou, 1-866-932-0219), lists a different Laval site among its Muslim cemeteries - the Cimetiere-jardin et complexe funeraire de Laval at 2500 avenue des Perron, Laval H7J 1G5 - so Laval appears to have more than one Magnus Poirier-group location used for Muslim burials.

What a burial costs here

The order of payment matters for a will: funeral expenses come out first, then debts, then any bequest — capped at one third — and only then are the fixed shares calculated. A large funeral bill shrinks every heir’s share. See the itemised costs for this region, with the plot, the grave opening and the mosque’s own fee separated.

Islamic schools, for the guardianship clause

A will names a guardian for children under 18, and families often want that person to keep the children in Islamic education. We list 2 schools in Laval: Centre Kawtar de Laval (Ecole arabe et Ecole coranique) · Ecole Iqraa. All Laval listings ›