Islamic Wills in Montreal

How do I make an Islamic will in Montreal?

The same way as anywhere in Quebec — and that is the point worth understanding. There is no Montreal 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.

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

The other 13 Montreal mosques we list have not published a funeral service. A blank is not a no — it means we could not confirm it.

Where Montreal’s mosques bury

Burial grounds in Montreal

Cimetiere-jardin et complexe funeraire de Montreal - Muslim Burials — a Muslim section within a wider cemetery. The only Muslim burial location listed inside the City of Montreal itself - every other option in the region is in Laval or on the South Shore. It is a conventional cimetiere-jardin on chemin de la Cote-de-Liesse in Saint-Laurent, listed by the Muslim funeral centre Dar Al Haq (Centre Funeraire Musulman, 9101 boulevard Louis-H.-La Fontaine, Anjou H1J 1Z1) among 'nos cimetieres musulmans', alongside its Laval, Saint-Hubert and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures locations. The phone number given is Dar Al Haq's, not the cemetery's own. NEEDS VERIFICATION: Dar Al Haq's page does not state whether there is a formally designated Muslim section or simply Muslim burials arranged within the grounds, nor its size, plot availability or pricing. Confirm by phone before relying on this entry.

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 6 schools in Montreal: Academie Nour · Ecole JMC (Jeunes Musulmans Canadiens) · Ecole de La Synergie. All Montreal listings ›

The organisations in Montreal

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.