How do I make an Islamic will in Windsor?
The same way as anywhere in Ontario — and that is the point worth understanding. There is no Windsor 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.
- 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.
- Meet Ontario’s formalities. This is the part that decides whether the document works at all — valid (the Ontario formalities in full).
- 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.
- Have it drafted. The Registry does not draft wills. Treadstone Law, an independent Ontario firm, handles the drafting side.
- Record where it is kept — free, and it is what lets your executor find it.
Municipalities have no jurisdiction over wills or estates. Under s. 92(13) of the Constitution Act, 1867 that is provincial. Any page promising a “Windsor Islamic will” is selling you a Ontario will.
The Ontario rules that decide whether it works
| Governing statute | Succession Law Reform Act |
| Court | Superior Court of Justice |
| Handwritten (holograph) wills | Valid |
| Probate cost | Estate Administration Tax: nil on the first $50,000, then about $15 per $1,000 of value above that (roughly 1.5%). A Small Estate Certificate is available for estates of $150,000 or less. |
| Spouse’s share if there is no will | $350,000 for deaths on or after 1 March 2021 ($200,000 before that date). |
| Challenges to the will | Dependant support claims under Part V of the Succession Law Reform Act. Ontario does not have a BC-style wills variation regime for independent adult children. |
Deeper: making a valid will · dying without one · probate · challenges.
Mosques in Windsor 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 1 Windsor mosque with a confirmed service, from each organisation’s own published information.
The other 3 Windsor mosques we list have not published a funeral service. A blank is not a no — it means we could not confirm it.
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 5 schools in Windsor: Aishah Siddiqah Academy · WIA Academy (Windsor Islamic Association). All Windsor listings ›
The organisations in Windsor
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.
Windsor Islamic Association (Windsor Mosque)
WIA's own history page traces the community to Muslim immigration into Essex County in the early twentieth century: 'In 1950, the Windsor Muslim community consisted of 20 families.' The organisation was established in 1956 as the Windsor Islamic Youth Association and renamed the Windsor Islamic Association by 1960; by 1963 membership had grown to over 3,000 adherents from 19 nations. 'In 1969 we first broke ground on 1320 Northwood Street, where we are still located today', construction of the present building began in 1991, and 'In 1993, we completed construction of the Windsor Mosque'. In spring 2023 WIA began building seniors' residences across from the mosque, completed in 2025. CRA registered WINDSOR ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION (W.I.A.) (119299949RR0001) effective 1979-01-01 at 1320 Northwood Ave - the mosque's own address - 23 years after the association formed; a second charity, Windsor Islamic Association Foundation (815765904RR0001), was registered in 2013. WIA says it 'serves a population of 37,000 Muslims in the city of Windsor'.
Listed services: five daily prayers and Friday prayers, with a published twelve-month adhan and iqamah timetable, funeral services - WIA has its own facility to store, wash and prepare the body in compliance with Islamic principles, under BAO licence TSR-1572, ISLAMIC WILL SERVICE: a downloadable fillable PDF will template, a four-step process (download, complete, have two witnesses sign, optionally lodge a copy), a 'Last Will Workshop' video, and a 'Wasiyyah Safe' in which WIA stores a copy of the completed will; the page states 'There is no need for lawyer's notary stamp' in standard cases, marriage services, Social Welfare (ISWA), WIA Academy and 4 more.
Where to go next
Citations & sources
Every factual claim on this page traces to a source below. Details change — check the original source before relying on any figure, fee or legal position.
- Surah an-Nisa 4:11–12, 4:176 — Quran.com
- Book of Wills (Wasaya) — Sahih al-Bukhari, Sunnah.com
- Succession Law Reform Act, RSO 1990, c S.26 — Government of Ontario
- Estate Administration Tax — Government of Ontario
- Locating wills and documents — Law Society of Ontario