Islamic Legacy Planning Workgroup

The Islamic Legacy Planning Workgroup is a MUIS workgroup whose second term was announced at a reappointment ceremony on 28 July 2026. MUIS says the second term will widen access through digital technology, build a network of trained Islamic Legacy Planning ambassadors and professionals, and deepen community outreach (MUIS, speeches listing, accessed 1 September 2026).

Focus of the second term

The workgroup's three published focus areas are access, capability and outreach. Digital technology is intended to make legacy-planning information easier to reach; trained ambassadors and professionals are intended to help communicate and support the planning process; and community outreach is intended to bring the subject to more people. The announcement identifies these as workgroup priorities, but does not publish a complete service workflow, a guaranteed advisory appointment, or a universal eligibility rule (MUIS, speeches listing, accessed 1 September 2026).

Relationship to Islamic legacy-planning tools

MUIS presents Islamic legacy planning as a way to use tools such as wasiat and nominations to express personal intentions for assets alongside the distribution framework of faraid. The workgroup supports awareness and access to planning knowledge; it is not itself a court, trustee, financial adviser or instrument that automatically changes an individual's estate. People seeking legal or financial effect must use the applicable instrument and professional or official guidance for their circumstances (MUIS, Islamic Legacy Planning, accessed 1 September 2026).

Relationship to Singapore Community Wakaf

The workgroup's planning-and-outreach role should be distinguished from Wakaf Masyarakat Singapura, the voluntary community endowment that MUIS presents as supporting long-term religious and community needs. A person may consider legacy planning and voluntary wakaf giving as related parts of broader financial and community planning, but the workgroup is not the wakaf itself, does not create a compulsory contribution and does not establish that any particular asset will be accepted or distributed in a particular way (MUIS, Islamic Legacy Planning and Wakaf Masyarakat Singapura, accessed 1 September 2026).