Islamic Wills in Burnaby

How do I make an Islamic will in Burnaby?

The same way as anywhere in British Columbia — and that is the point worth understanding. There is no Burnaby will law. Wills are provincial, so the rules that decide whether your will is valid are British Columbia’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 British Columbia’s formalities. This is the part that decides whether the document works at all — not valid as a category — bc requires wills to be signed and witnessed by two people (the British Columbia 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 British Columbia rules that decide whether it works

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

Mosques in Burnaby 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 Burnaby mosque with a confirmed service, from each organisation’s own published information.

The other 3 Burnaby mosques we list have not published a funeral service. A blank is not a no — it means we could not confirm it.

Where Burnaby’s mosques bury

Burnaby’s mosques name 3 burial grounds on their own funeral pages. That is confirmation from the masjid, not from the cemetery.

• Ocean View Burial Park
• Vedder View Gardens — Chilliwack
• Victory Memorial Park — Surrey

Burial grounds in Burnaby

Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Large general cemetery on Royal Oak Avenue in Burnaby, listed first among the three cemeteries used by the Az-Zahraa Islamic Centre (The Shia Muslim Community of British Columbia) on its own funeral-services cemeteries page, which publishes this address and phone and links a downloadable site map of the grounds (az-zahraa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/forestlawn_site_map.pdf). This is a DIFFERENT place from Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in London, Ontario, and from Ocean View Burial Park (also in Burnaby, already in this directory as the BC Muslim Association's Burnaby ground). NOT CONFIRMED: whether Forest Lawn has a formally designated Muslim section, its operator, acreage, plot availability, or whether graves face qiblah - Az-Zahraa's page states only the name, address and phone, and no operator page was found that mentions Muslim burial. A website could not be verified, so the field is left null rather than guessed. Rank: needs a phone call.

Mosques that name it on their own funeral pages: London Muslim Mosque (London).

Ocean View Burial Park (BC Muslim Association plots) — a Muslim section within a wider cemetery. Large Burnaby cemetery and funeral home (Dignity Memorial). The BC Muslim Association's own funeral page names Ocean View as one of three Lower Mainland cemeteries where it owns burial plots for the Muslim community, which is the basis for the Muslim-section flag here. Note the cemetery's own page describes accommodations for several cultural and faith communities but does NOT itself mention an Islamic section - so confirm the exact section and current availability with BCMA (funeral hotline 604-727-8001) or the cemetery office before relying on it.

Mosques that name it on their own funeral pages: Abbotsford Islamic Center (BC Muslim Association) (Abbotsford) · Masjid Al-Salaam and Education Centre (BC Muslim Association - Burnaby Branch) · Masjid Ur-Rahmah (Surrey) · Masjid al-Haqq (BC Muslim Association - Vancouver Branch) (Vancouver) · Richmond Jamea Masjid (Richmond) · Surrey Jami'a Mosque (Surrey).

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.