Fatwas Archive

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...

Question: Is it permissible for the guardian to borrow from the waqf’s funds, or to lend them to someone else until the mosque is in need of them?

Question: There are endowments whose guardians have neglected to cultivate them—what is binding upon them?

Question: A man said, “If I do such-and-such, then my wealth is [a] waqf,” and then he did what he had sworn about; what is binding upon him?

Question: What is the ruling on someone who gives a present or a gift to a person for a purpose—namely, that the recipient will buy automobile spare parts from him—given that the recipient is an engineer who often needs parts?

Question: A man lent his house to another to live in. The borrower lived in it and incurred some expense on it—on paints and the like. After several months the owner reclaimed his house and took it back. Does the...

Question: If the pledgee stipulates upon the pledger that he (the pledgee) will benefit from the pledged property until he is paid what he is owed from the debt—does that stipulation stand?