The growing number of published articles indexed in a database such as Scopus suggests the increasing number of high-quality research and current interests that are relevant to a particular discourse. However, bibliometric studies identified that the pattern of journal articles published on Islamic estate planning in relation to Malaysian Muslim market in the Scopus database are still limited and given less attention. Therefore, this study seeks to identify the pattern of the published articles that have been indexed by Scopus specifically on Islamic estate planning instruments such as waqf, takaful, Islamic inheritance (farāid), gifts, trust, and will. This article is based on bibliometric analysis and focuses on all Islamic estate planning instruments in Islam. The data obtained from the Scopus database are then analysed thematically using ATLAS.ti 8 and VOSviewer software. The bibliometric analysis found 397 publications from Malaysia, which encompass articles, proceedings, book chapters, and book series. Nonetheless, there are only 324 relevant articles that had been analysed to establish the theme of the study. Meanwhile, the waqf instrument has become the most popular topic debated among researchers from Malaysia. All the articles are obtained from the Scopus database only by using keywords related to the instruments of Islamic estate planning. This study only focuses on Malaysian affiliates for 7 years, from 2015 to 2021. Therefore, more studies need to be done with any other indexing and high-quality research databases such as Web of Science (WoS) and related Islamic estate planning and marketing articles to achieve a better and more comprehensive analysis of research publications. In conclusion, this study provides a better information thematically through the frequency of publication by instruments, frequency of publication year, number of authors, language, publication format, list of journals, affiliation, and types of collaboration. This guideline is useful for researchers carrying out research on Islamic estate planning in the realm of Islamic marketing indexed in Scopus. In fact, the important result of this study will provide insightful bibliometric analysis and assist in identifying current interest in Islamic estate planning instruments with special reference to the Malaysian Muslim consumers' context.

Understanding Maqasid Syariah is a must and basic requirement to whoever appointed to the position of mufti. This condition must be fulfilled in order to explain authoritative legal opinion (fatwa) to community.Thus, those answers given by mufti are required to be in line with the ultimate purpose of Maqasid Syariah which is enganging maslahah and lifting difficulities and hardships.Therefore, this study aimed to delineates interrelationship between mufti and the fatwa’s matters that engaging maslahah either it is practiced in person or in general . This paper is qualitative in nature which applies the content analysis through the intense reading of datas which collected previously from various sources such as classical and contemporary text and literature, acedamic writings (journals) and website. In conclusion, findings of this study shows that, as fatwa is commited to accuracy, this principle has been generally used as  standard when ecounter a rising issue. Based on this study, there are exact purpose that fatwas in Malaysia are to enganging maslahah towards people. This is what Shariah concerned about, which is not to take easy on human’s right to have benefit in their life. ABSTRAK Memahami Maqasid Syariah merupakan tuntutan asas bagi setiap mufti. Hal ini kerana mufti bertanggungjawab dalam hal-hal menjelaskan fatwa kepada masyarakat. Bagi menjawab persoalan masyarakat, jawapan yang dikemukakan mestilah selari dengan pendekatan Maqasid Syariah. Antara tuntutan Maqasid Syariah dalam fatwa ialah mengangkat kesukaran dan kepayahan. Oleh itu, kajian ini menjelaskan  hubungan antara mufti dan kefahaman terhadap kaedah maslahah dalam hal-hal kefatwaan. Kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan metode kualitatif iaitu dengan menganalisis data-data dan maklumat yang dikumpul dari pelbagai wasilah, antaranya penulisan sarjana silam dan kontemporari, jurnal-jurnal dan laman sesawang. Berdasarkan kajian, penulis mendapati bahawa kaedah maslahah ini merupakan pendekatan yang biasa digunakan sebagai kayu ukur ketepatan fatwa dalam sesuatu isu.