Islamic Wills in Surrey

How do I make an Islamic will in Surrey?

The same way as anywhere in British Columbia — and that is the point worth understanding. There is no Surrey 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 Surrey 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 Surrey mosques with a confirmed service, from each organisation’s own published information.

The other 5 Surrey mosques we list have not published a funeral service. A blank is not a no — it means we could not confirm it.

Where Surrey’s mosques bury

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

• Ocean View — Burnaby
• Vedder View Gardens — Chilliwack
• Victory Memorial Park

Burial grounds in Surrey

Heritage Gardens Cemetery — plots available. A South Surrey cemetery that opened in 2018 ("Opened in 2018, we are still very new" - its own site). Listed as one of three cemeteries used for burials by the Az-Zahraa Islamic Centre (The Shia Muslim Community of British Columbia), which publishes this exact address and phone on its own cemeteries page. NOT CONFIRMED: whether there is a designated Muslim section, whether any part of the grounds is all-Muslim, and whether graves face qiblah - the cemetery's own website makes no reference to Muslim or Islamic burial, and Az-Zahraa's page lists the address only. Because the cemetery is new and still developing its grounds, plots_available is recorded as true on the strength of its own site marketing current sales, but the availability of Muslim-area plots specifically is unconfirmed. Phone the cemetery and Az-Zahraa's funeral line (604-649-0793) before relying on this listing.

Victory Memorial Park (BC Muslim Association section) — a Muslim section within a wider cemetery. South Surrey cemetery (Dignity Memorial) whose own site states it has sections designated for religious organisations including the British Columbia Muslim Association, the Canadian Hussaini Association (Shia) and the Aga Khan (Ismaili) communities, as well as Jewish and Armenian congregations. BCMA independently confirms it owns burial plots here. This is one of the three Lower Mainland cemeteries BCMA names for Muslim burials. Acreage and current plot availability are not published.

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) (Burnaby) · Masjid Ur-Rahmah · Masjid al-Haqq (BC Muslim Association - Vancouver Branch) (Vancouver) · Richmond Jamea Masjid (Richmond) · Surrey Jami'a Mosque.

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 3 schools in Surrey: Al-Mustafa School · Iqra Islamic School · Surrey Muslim School. All Surrey listings ›

The organisations in Surrey

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.