The FaraidHub Hibah Calculator checks two separate things: whether lifetime gifts to your children or heirs are equal, and — separately — how a Ruqba/Umra family home scenario looks under both established scholarly views. This guide walks through both modes.

Step 1: Choose a Mode

At the top of the calculator, pick Equal Gift Check if you want to compare gift amounts across your children or heirs, or Family Home (Ruqba/Umra) if you're considering a conditional gift of the family home to a spouse or relative. The two modes are independent — use either one, or both, depending on what you need.

Step 2: Equal Gift Check — Add Your Heirs

Enter your currency symbol first, then add each child or heir using Add Another Child / Heir — a name field and a gift-amount field appear for each one. Enter the amount already given, or planned, for each. The calculator needs at least 2 heirs with amounts entered before it can compare them.

As you type, the result box updates live: it shows the average gift amount and flags any heir receiving above or below it, so you can see at a glance whether the distribution is equal. Remove a row with the × button if you added someone by mistake.

Step 3: Reading the Equal Gift Result

A green "all equal" message means every heir listed is within about 1% of the average — close enough to count as equal after normal rounding. A flagged result lists each heir's status individually as Above average or Below average. Remember this is a fact, not automatically a problem: the majority view requires equal treatment, but a minority of scholars accept a documented, justifiable reason for a difference — the tool tells you what the numbers show, not whether your specific reason is acceptable.

Step 4: Family Home Scenario — Describe Your Situation

Switch to Family Home (Ruqba/Umra) and answer three questions: who is receiving the home (spouse, child, or another relative), whether a reverting condition is explicitly stated in the gift, and your jurisdiction context (Singapore, Malaysia, a Western joint-asset country, or other). Select Show My Scenario once all three are set.

Step 5: Read Both Scholarly Views

The result shows a summary of your scenario, then two panels side by side — View A (the gift becomes unconditional once possessed) and View B (a clearly documented reverting condition can still be enforced) — followed by a note specific to your selected jurisdiction. The tool deliberately does not pick one view, because credentialed scholars genuinely disagree on this question. Use the result as the starting point for a conversation with a scholar for your madhab and, for real property, a lawyer for your jurisdiction — see Can Your Spouse Keep the Family Home in Islam? for the full explanation behind both views.

Frequently Asked Questions

Use Equal Gift Check mode. Add each child or heir by name, enter the gift amount given or planned for each, and the calculator compares them automatically — flagging anyone above or below the average so you can catch an unequal gift before it causes a dispute.
It doesn't give you a single answer, on purpose. Select your recipient, whether a reverting condition is stated, and your jurisdiction, and the tool shows both established scholarly views on Ruqba/Umra side by side, plus a jurisdiction-specific legal note — because which view applies to you is a genuinely disputed question, not a lookup-table one.
Because unequal gifts aren't automatically forbidden — a minority of jurists permit them for a genuine, justifiable reason such as need or disability. The calculator flags the deviation as a fact so you can decide whether it's intentional and justified, rather than assuming every unequal split is a mistake.
No. Every calculation runs entirely inside your browser. No names, amounts, or scenario details are ever transmitted to or stored on FaraidHub's servers.

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