Book of Waqf

Question: A pious, poor man with weak eyesight and dependents purchased a plot of land, developed it, and built a house on it to live in with his family. Many years later, he was informed that the land he had...

Question: We have endowed books, all of them manuscript volumes weakened by age. They were originally endowed upon a learned person from the progeny (al-dhurriyyah) and upon a righteous seeker of knowledge. In our time, all those endowed books have...

Question: A mosque has endowments, and the mosque needs major repairs, but those funds have no yield due to lack of rainfall or insufficient harvest. Is it permissible to sell something from those endowed properties in order to repair the...

Question: A man sold a waqf jarbah; after some time he regretted it and wished to be rid of what he had done. The jarbah is now in the hand of a man who has built upon it and is...

Question: Is it permissible for me to purchase some of the soil of a waqf jarbah?

Question: We have a waqf jarbah (field). We have moved soil from it to form an equivalent jarbah next to it, and that place had been a hill. Is what has been formed considered waqf or not?

Question: Someone asked: my father consumes the yields of the waqf under his hand and has been doing so—does the son have to guarantee (compensate for) what was eaten in his father’s household?Does he have to avoid eating [there]? And...

Question: We have a cistern with its own waqf whose proceeds exceed its needs, and we have a surplus from its yields which the cistern does not require. Is it permissible to build from that surplus a public watering-place from...

Question: There is a waqf of grapevines for a mosque, and for this waqf there is a channel into which the rainwater flows to the vines. Is it permissible to build a mosque in that runoff channel, in the event...

Question: The contributors to the mosques’ funds in some localities complained to the ministry about the abundance of agricultural levies and requested relief regarding what they are required to deliver to the mosques. The ministry decided that the farmers must...