Islamic Wills in Markham

How do I make an Islamic will in Markham?

The same way as anywhere in Ontario — and that is the point worth understanding. There is no Markham will law. Wills are provincial, so the rules that decide whether your will is valid are Ontario’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 Ontario’s formalities. This is the part that decides whether the document works at all — valid (the Ontario 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 Ontario rules that decide whether it works

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

Mosques in Markham with janazah services

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.

These are the 2 Markham mosques with a confirmed service, from each organisation’s own published information.

Where Markham’s mosques bury

Burial grounds in Markham

Al Hussain Foundation Cemetery (Jannat Wadi al-Salam) — plots available. A cemetery on the grounds of Masjid Al-Hussain on Kennedy Road in north Markham, owned and operated by the Al-Hussain Foundation - "a non-profit organization established under Canadian Federal Law in 1989 and ... managed by a Board of Trustees" (its own About page). Its own site names the burial ground "Jan'att Wadi Salam Cemetery" on the home page and "Janatt Wadi Al-Salaam Cemetery" on the About page; its published price list heads the document "Al Hussain Foundation / Jannat-Wadi-elSalam Cemetary, 10992 Kennedy Road, Markham, Ontario L0H 1G0 - Tel: 416-898-6967". The mosque and cemetery sit on a 5-acre parcel. It is a licensed Ontario cemetery: the price list carries the Care & Maintenance Fund disclosure required under the Funeral, Burial and Cremation Services Act, 2002 and O. Reg. 30/11, with 40% of the price of interment rights set aside in perpetuity. The Foundation separately holds a BAO transfer service operator licence, Class 2 Restricted, number TSR-1541. PRICES (effective 1 January 2026, before HST unless stated): interment rights $1,000; opening and closing of the grave $1,500; facilities $2,500; transportation within the GTA $900; documentation $300; casket (maple plywood) $600; shrouding $150; sodding $650; administration $1,100; granite marker 24x18 black $2,600; total for a burial $11,500; cold storage $250/night. Burial contacts: Ajaz Sadiq 416-898-6967 and lead volunteer Hussein Somji 416-871-5568. Named as a cemetery they bury at on the funeral pages of two Shia centres already in this directory: the Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto (Jaffari Community Centre, Thornhill) and Masumeen Islamic Centre (Brampton). NOT STATED anywhere consulted, and therefore left null: whether burial is restricted to Muslims (the grounds are owned by an Islamic foundation and adjoin its masjid, but no source says so in terms), whether it is a section inside a wider cemetery (it is not - it is a standalone ground, but no source states this either), the cemetery's acreage as distinct from the 5-acre whole site, and whether graves face qiblah. plots_available is recorded true on the strength of a current 2026 price list actively selling interment rights.

Mosques that name it on their own funeral pages: Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto (Jaffari Community Centre) (Thornhill) · Masumeen Islamic Centre (Brampton).

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 1 school in Markham: Islamic Academy of Markham. All Markham listings ›

The organisations in Markham

Each account below is drawn from the organisation’s own published information, checked on the date shown in its directory entry. We record what they say about themselves; we do not assess it.