In estate administration, the appointment of wasi is seen as one of the significant instruments because it may expedite the process of distribution of a deceased’s estate. Hence, wasi plays a vital role as manager of the deceased’s estate as he is responsible for collecting, maintaining, and protecting the estate pending on the final distribution. On the other hand, the estate should be properly administered, or otherwise to a certain degree it will contribute harm to the well-being of the community. Morever, it should be comprehended that, in dealing with Muslims’ estate this also should be consistent with Maqasid Al-Syariah or the objectives of Islamic law. Thus, the paper attempts to examine the appointment and duties of wasi in the context of maqasid al-syariah and the concept of hifz al-mal particularly. This study is based on a qualitative study and its approach is a content analysis methodology. The study discovers that the appointment and duties of wasi is consistent with the concept of Hifz al-mal as wasi is a person who is responsible to protect the property of the deceased from any possible harm or damage (mafsadah). The findings of the study provide insights for the importance roles and functions of wasi in managing Muslims’ estate. The study concludes that the concept of preservation of property in Maqasid al-Syariah should be applied to the major players in estate administration such as personal representative, executor, administrator and trustee in order to protect the rights of beneficiaries and avoid hardship to the beneficiaries in wealth distribution.

Abstract. Internet enables information to be accessible anytime and anywhere. This scenario creates an environment whereby information can be easily copied. Easy access to the internet is one of the factors which contribute towards piracy in Malaysia as well as the rest of the world. According to a survey conducted by Compliance Gap BSA Global Software Survey in 2013 on software piracy, found out that 43 percent of the software installed on PCs around the world was not properly licensed, the commercial value of the unlicensed installations worldwide was reported to be $62.7 billion. Piracy can happen anywhere including universities. Malaysia as well as other countries in the world is faced with issues of piracy committed by the students in universities. Piracy in universities concern about acts of stealing intellectual property. It can be in the form of software piracy, music piracy, movies piracy and piracy of intellectual materials such as books, articles and journals. This scenario affected the owner of intellectual property as their property is in jeopardy. This study has developed a classification model for detecting software piracy. The model was developed using a swarm intelligence algorithm called the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm. The data for training was collected by a study conducted in Universiti Teknologi MARA (Perlis). Experimental results show that the model detection accuracy rate is better as compared to J48 algorithm.

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