The 83-year old mother of the late minister Jamaluddin Jarjis is seeking her share of her son's estate, which is said to be worth at least RM2.1 billion.

Aminah Abdullah, who now resides in Setiawangsa, wants the Syariah Court to issue a faraid (Islamic wealth distribution) certificate for this in the petition she filed in March this year.

This is for the court to recognise that she is one of the rightful claimants – along with Jamaluddin’s widow and her four children – and that the assets are rightly distributed...