Islamic Wills in Richmond Hill

How do I make an Islamic will in Richmond Hill?

The same way as anywhere in Ontario — and that is the point worth understanding. There is no Richmond Hill 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.

Janazah services in Richmond Hill

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 4 Richmond Hill 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 Richmond Hill’s mosques bury

Burial grounds in Richmond Hill

Muslim Green Cemeteries Corporation (MGCC). A coalition of GTA masajid that operates Muslim burial grounds; its own site gives the burial-ground location as 13076 Leslie St, 2nd gate west of Leslie on Bethesda Side Rd, Richmond Hill (the same civic address as Toronto Muslim Cemetery) and its administrative office as 235 Nugget Ave, Unit 7, Scarborough, ON M1S 3L3. Phone recorded is the one on MGCC's own contact page (416-292-MGCC). Its site advertises a 'free grave plot' program and an MGCC member list. The exact relationship between MGCC's burial ground and the Toronto Muslim Cemetery site, its acreage, and current plot availability were NOT stated on the pages fetched - treat as unconfirmed and call the office before relying on it. Madinah Masjid's funeral page lists 'MGCC, 100 McLevin Ave Unit 2B, Scarborough' as a cemetery contact, which conflicts with the Nugget Ave office address on MGCC's own site.

Toronto Muslim Cemetery (TMCC) — an entirely Muslim cemetery, about 36 acres, plots available. Describes itself on its own site as the only all-Muslim cemetery in the Greater Toronto Area and the first Sunni-Shia Muslim cemetery in the GTA; 36-acre landscaped site, first burial May 2012, almost 1,500 people buried and over 15,000 graves purchased for future planning. Named as a burial destination on the funeral pages of TARIC Islamic Centre and Madinah Masjid. NOTE: TARIC's page lists a different number for TMCC (416-931-1339) than TMCC's own site (416-829-TMCC / 416-829-8622); the number recorded here is the one published by the cemetery itself.

Mosques that name it on their own funeral pages: Islamic Foundation of Toronto (Scarborough) · Madinah Masjid (Toronto) · Masjid al Aqsaa (Ajax) · Scarborough Muslim Association (Jame Abu Bakr Siddique Masjid) (Scarborough).

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.

The organisations in Richmond Hill

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.