Fatwas Archive

Question: Is it permissible for a trustee to borrow from the trusts in his hand when in need, then repay them?

Question: A man has a deposit; and Allah knows best whether it was stolen or lost—what is incumbent upon him? Please give us a ruling, may Allah reward you with goodness.

Question: If a man who is completely insane deposits with another man a sum of coins that he begs from people, and the man knows the insane person by the name “ʿAlī Ḥijūrī,” and that his town is Ḥajūr; then...

Question: In a waqf inherited for the recitation of the Book of Allah Most High, are females given from it, given that the custom has been not to give them—because in most cases they are not Qurʾān reciters? What do...

Question: A man bequeathed to another man a waqf for him and for his progeny after him. The legatee then wrote a will that the yields be split in half: half of the yields to his heirs, and the other...

Question: Our mosque needs funds for repairs. The mosque has many endowments and far more carpeting than it needs, which may spoil in storage. Some neighbors of the mosque’s endowment wish to buy from the waqf a strip of land...

Question: I own a large, sprawling tract of land in which there is a fixed percentage for the waqf. I took charge of it because I saw many covetous people fixing their eyes on the waqf’s land to seize it....

Question: May the waqf-guardian exchange the mosque’s field, taking another field in its place for the sake of benefit?

Question: Is it permissible to transfer a mosque’s waqf to another mosque?

Question: We have a cistern from which the townspeople draw water and perform ablution, and it has a waqf whose yields exceed the cistern’s needs. We also have a needy mosque requiring repair. Is it permissible to disburse the surplus...