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 | | In the history of Islam, the first religious waqf is the mosque of Quba' in Madinah, a city 400 kilometer north of Makkah, which was built upon the arrival of the Prophet Muhammad in 622. | | | Waqf, in Arabic language, means hold, confinement or prohibition. | | | A third kind of waqf started shortly after the death of the prophet during the reign of cUmar (635-645), the second successor. |
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http://islamic-world.net/economic/waqf/waqaf_mainpage.html
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| | WAQF (CHARITABLE ISLAMIC TRUST) -Under sustained controversy in India? |
| | Literally, the Waqf means endowment of moveable or immovable property dedicated to God by the Muslims for the welfare of needy and poor people. | | | Thus, the kind of Waqf he advocated was not only opposed by a number of Muslim clerics as well as Amir Ali the noted advocate of Calcutta and expert of Muslim Law. | | | The followers of Islam transformed this concept of charity into an institution known as Waqf that formed the "most important branch of Muslim Law for it is interwoven with the entire religious life and social economy of the Muslims" (Ibid. |
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http://www.saag.org/papers12/paper1136.html
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| | ISLAMIC ‘WAQF ENDOWMENT’ |
| | In spite of all this, there is no doubt that Waqf movement is generally influenced by the predominant social, religious and political conditions. | | | However, the great change that happened to the Islamic world starting from the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, namely the European invasion of most of the Islamic countries, was unprecedented Muslim history. | | | Experience of Islamic Waqf endowment in the USA |
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http://www.isesco.org.ma/pub/Eng/WAQF/Chap5.htm
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| | Rules Regarding Waqf |
| | If a person waqfs some property for the repairs of a mosque, and the Imam of the congregation, and the Mu'azzin, and if the quantity for each has been specified by the donor, it should be spent in the same manner. | | | If a person Waqfs a property, for example, for the poor, or for the Sayyids, or he Waqfs it for charitable purposes, and does not appoint the trustee for the Waqf, the discretion with regard to that Waqf rests with the Mujtahid. | | | It is not necessary to utter the formal declaration of Waqf in Arabic. |
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http://majalla.org/books/law/268.html
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| | ISLAMIC ‘WAQF ENDOWMENT’ |
| | That is why Islamic waqf endowment movement orients all its initiatives in the development of all these dimensions at the same time. | | | As for the rest, it has been devoted to satisfy materialistic needs of man on the basis of equality and brotherhood, and of charity and kindness, not on the basis of profit, exploitation and blackmail. | | | Also, as part of its scientific services for the Waqf movement, the international Waqf library of Shaikh Ali Bin Abdellah Al Tani in Qatar has created a yearly contest prize. |
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http://www.isesco.org.ma/pub/Eng/WAQF/Chap6.htm
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| | The Following Excerpts Concerning the waqf have been drawn from: |
| | The earliest waqfs that satisfy the definition given at the outset seem to date from a period about a century after the birth of Islam. | | | These motives were by no means mutually exclusive: a person could establish a waqf both to shelter wealth and to gain entry to heaven. | | | True, from the eighth century onward, at least a dozen Qur’anic passages have been interpreted as instructing believers to establish foundations serving religious or charitable purposes. |
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http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~amcdouga/Hist323/waqf.htm
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| | The Declaration |
| | According to all the schools, when the beneficiary ceases to exist after having existed at the time of the creation of waqf, the waqf is valid (as when a person creates a waqf for his existing children and their future descendants). | | | waqfs made for the poor and waqfs of mosques and shrines) and private waqfs (e.g. | | | Therefore a waqf is completed without the presence of a spiritual motive. |
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http://huquq.com/maghniyah/declaration.htm
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| | Temple Mount in Jerusalem |
| | From the middle of the eighties the 'Temple Mount Faithful', another indefatigable association, undertook frequent legal proceedings against the construction and the destruction of antiquities on the Temple Mount by the Waqf and against the laxity of the Israeli government to avoid these. | | | Further it decides that the Waqf administrates the Temple Mount and its mosque. | | | Israel is in a difficult predicament concerning the Temple Mount. |
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http://www.jewishmag.com/42mag/templemount/templemount.htm
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| | Preface |
| | Moreover, the religious nature of the institution of waqf, made the British to believe that their political survival depended on a policy of total non-interference in waqf matters. | | | India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, which were once under the British rule, naturally have a common history of waqf legislation. | | | It is very hard to believe that the exact number of awq?f in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar or Maldives is not known. |
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http://www.iosworld.org/publ-12.htm
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| | The Destruction of the Temple Mount Antiquities, by Mark Ami-El |
| | As a result, the Israel Antiquities Authority has been prevented from entering the Temple Mount area, since the Waqf, as the practical custodian of the site, was empowered to decide who was permitted entry and who was forbidden. | | | After September 2000, the Muslim Waqf closed off the Temple Mount entirely to any archeological oversight by the Israel Antiquities Authority. | | | Soon after its capture, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan handed the keys to the Temple Mount to the Muslim Waqf authorities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in a gesture of respect for the rights of Muslims at the site. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp483.htm
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| | The Modern Destruction of the Temple Mount by Richard Benkin |
| | The Waqf has proceeded on two fronts: one to de-Judaize the Mount and another to Islamicize it, although their actions often aim toward both at once. | | | Typical are the words of these Iranian clerics that the Mount is a “sacred place only for Muslims, around the globe.” The Jerusalem mufti (or Moslem spiritual leader) regularly insists that Jewish or Christian prayer never will be allowed on the Mount, as it is strictly a Moslem holy site. | | | Parallel with the Mount’s de-Judaization are current efforts to Islamicize it, led by Sheik Rayadh Salah and the Israeli Islamic movement. |
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http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Modern_Destruction.htm
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| | waqaf_financing |
| | The above definition of Waqf also allows inclusion of all kinds of Maal (asset) under Waqf, so that land and construction can be made Waqf for religious purposes, such as a mosque for prayers; for philanthropic purposes, such as a hospital, an orphanage or a school. | | | All of them are built by Awqaf; and all of them are provided with Waqf revenues for payment of teachers and school supplies.[3] The number of high schools and universities in each of the major Islamic cities, such as Al Quds, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo and Nisapur was in the tense and hundreds. | | | It should be noted that the Islamic definition of Waqf makes its assets cumulative, in application to the principle of perpetuity in Waqf. |
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http://islamic-world.net/economic/waqf/waqaf_financing.html
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| | Articles: Muhammad `Ali'S Tax Inspectors - Historical Text Archive |
| | Similarly they would make endowments in favour of scholars or poor people, as a charity, enabling them to live and pursue learning; and when the beneficiary died the judge or the supervisor would appoint some deserving person in his place. | | | And in [1224 ah/ 1809 ad] they began to prepare a register for the taking of half the yield from the multazim-s and another for the imposition of taxes on produce of waqf devoted to mosques, foundations, alms, and charitable works. | | | And the people crowded in on the office of the clerk of the waqf. |
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http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=14
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| | Waqf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A waqf (Arabic: وقف, plural awqāf) is an inalienable religious endowment in Islam, typically devoting a building or plot of land for Muslim religious or charitable purposes. | | | Awqaf were among the most important owners of property in the Islamic world until recent times, and remain significant. | | | The Muslim administrative body responsible for the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem is often referred to as "the waqf". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqf
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| | Moment Magazine - Features |
| | According to reports, the Waqf intends to fill the cisterns with holy water from Mecca, thereby holy-izing the entire Mount, known to Moslems as the Haram esh-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary. | | | In 1986, the Temple Mount Faithful filed a suit in Israel's Supreme Court against both the Waqf and the government, alleging these and other Waqf violations of Israel's antiquities and building laws by the damage or destruction of evidence from Solomon's Temple (the First Temple), Herod's Temple (the Second Temple), and other ancient structures. | | | That's the Muslim religious trust that controls the Temple Mount, the esplanade where the golden Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque now sit and where the First and Second Temples were once located. |
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http://www.momentmag.com/archive/june02/feat2.html
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| | The Expulsion of the Palestinian Authority from Jerusalem and the Temple Mount - Dan Diker |
| | Sabri delivered weekly vitriolic sermons against Israel and the United States, including a widely quoted prayer prior to the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. for "Allah to paint the walls of the White House black." A popular myth on the Palestinian street after 9/11 was that Sabri's prayers were answered. | | | The restoration of Jordanian Waqf administration in Jerusalem also reaffirms Israel's long-standing commitment to Hashemite custodianship of Jerusalem's Muslim shrines. | | | The Jordanians also used the opportunity to "review" relations with the Muslim Waqf, whose salaries Jordan had continued paying in large part for the past eight years, even though the Hashemites had lost administrative and religious control of the Waqf to Arafat in 1996. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief3-31.htm
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| | The Temple Mount In the News |
| | There are also deep religious-political ramifications: We heard from several sources that the reason the Waqf is doing this is to prevent the Jews from being able to pray on the only place on the Temple Mount where they are halakhically permitted to do so." | | | Etzion also informed Arutz-7 during the course of the interview that he had just been informed that a judge had responded positively to a suit by the Temple Mount Faithful regarding the Waqf's illegal construction activities. | | | It was apparently found on Shabbat, but by yesterday an archaeologist who was at the site said he saw nothing. |
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http://www.har-habayt.org/aruz7.html
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| | Water and Sanitation Waqf |
| | Zubida's Waterway in Mecca was a Waqf initiated by Zubida, the wife of the famous Muslim Caliph Haroun al Rashid. | | | She ordered a channel to be dug directing water to the holy city of Mecca, ensuring Hajji's (Pilgrims) had free access to water during their pilgrimage. | | | Islamic Relief's Water and Sanitation Waqf offers communities both the practical and educational means to overcome problems associated with the lack of clean water and sanitation facilities. |
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http://www.islamic-relief.com/submenu/WAQF/Wqf2.htm
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| | The Hindu : National : Waqf ban on speeches draws flak |
| | The issue, which has snowballed into a controversy, started with a "request" from Hurriyat Conference leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Abdul Gani Bhat to address a Friday congregation at the mosque of Syed Yaqoob Saheb shrine at Sonwar. | | | Similarly the Board instructed all administrators of the shrines and mosques not to allow any political leader to use their premises. | | | However, Waqf Board Chief Executive Iftikhar Andrabi says there is nothing new about what "they call the ban." The Waqf Act of 2003 is much clear that no shrine or mosque can be used by a person or a group for political purposes." Mr. |
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http://www.hindu.com/2005/08/28/stories/2005082800740700.htm
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| | BAHISHTI ZEWAR-WAQF |
| | When endowing anything, one should ensure that he appoints a pious and religious person to oversee all the affairs of that property or building. | | | Ownership of that thing is now transferred to Allah Ta'ala. | | | It will have to be used for the purpose for which it was made waqf and cannot be used in any other manner. |
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http://www.muslimkids.8m.net/WAQF.htm
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| | Navhind Times on the Web: India |
| | The documents are being collected from different places to give a concrete judgement over the claim of certain people that the 17th century monument was a waqf property, the board chairman Mr Hafiz Usman had said giving reason for the delay in judgement. | | | Earlier, a descendant of last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, had laid claim for the post of mutawalli of the proposed waqf. | | | He also cited his Mughal descent to prove he was the great grandson of the last emperor and claimed there were 50 direct descendants of the dynasty living in Hyderabad. |
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http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=07132
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| | Waqf |
| | Waqf is a religious endowment, a property giving revenues, as regulated by Islamic law. | | | Waqfs were vital to the religious parts of the society before the establishment of modern states in the Muslim world. | | | The Muslim part of the origin of the waqfs, is a bit obscure, and waqfs are seldom mentioned in the Sunna. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/waqf.htm
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| | BBC NEWS South Asia Muslim charity claims Taj Mahal |
| | A Waqf is a religious endowment in Islam, typically devoting a building or plot of land for Muslim religious purposes. | | | Who succeeds him as the custodian of the Waqf?," says historian Irfan Habib. | | | The authorities of Taj Mahal would collect revenues from some 80 villages located around Agra for the upkeep of the building and for arranging prayers. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4348663.stm
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| | Taj now Waqf property, ASI to move court : HindustanTimes.com |
| | UP Waqf Minister Shakir Ali criticised the order saying the board was incapable of looking after the World Heritage Site. | | | The board, however, said Shahjehan had dedicated it as Waqf property along with 30 villages of Akbarabad and Nagar Chand and added that Shahjehan had personally appointed the first administrator of the tomb. | | | The board maintained that the Taj Mahal was a graveyard, housing not only the graves of Shahjehan and Mumtaz, but also his second wife and two of Mumtaz’s friends. |
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1429943,0008.htm
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| | A Waqf for Prayers |
| | But the famous Jurist al-Sinhuri mentions in his compilation of select laws from Islamic fiqh that the H. anafis exclude mosques from the above rule. | | | The invalidity of a waqf created for the waqif's benefit reveals the invalidity of a large number of such waqfs in the villages of Jabal (Lebanon) which have been created by their waqifs to meet the expenses of the prayers to be offered posthumously on their behalf. | | | For instance, if we know that he intends by the words 'my brother' a particular friend of his, the waqf will be given to the friend, not to his brother. |
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http://huquq.com/maghniyah/a_waqf_for_prayers.htm
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| | A few points regarding Inheritance |
| | However the final avenue of the Waqf must have an indefinite ending, for example Masjid, Islamic organization, etc. that cannot be sold. | | | Trustees of the waqf do not own the Waqf. | | | The owner may make out some rules of the Waqf to be carried out upon his/her demise and appoint a group of reliable Allah-fearing Trustees to administrate the Waqf. |
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http://www.jamiat.org.za/afew.html
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| | FORWARD : News |
| | In its attempt to avoid an international incident by abrogating its authority on the Temple Mount, they say, Israel is risking a far greater danger by neglecting its duty to supervise unauthorized construction. | | | The collapse is another in a series of instances of structural damage that critics say have resulted from the Israeli government's decision to yield to the Waqf, the Palestinian Authority-appointed Islamic religious authority that has day-to-day control over the Temple Mount. | | | Critics of the Waqf's construction projects charge that the digging and building is causing irreparable damage to archaeological remains from the First and Second Temple periods in the area known as Solomon's Stables, where the Waqf built an enormous underground mosque. |
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http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.10.10/news9.wall.html
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| | Navhind Times on the Web: India |
| | “It is absolutely baseless to claim that every Muslim tomb or graveyard ipso facto becomes a Waqf property,” he asserted. | | | He said money was the main reason behind the Waqf board’s sudden interest in the 17th century mausoleum built by Mughal emperor, Shahjahan for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. | | | Jawaad, who enjoys a massive following among Shia Muslims, was of the view that 80 percent of Waqf properties were disputed or under illegal possession of criminals and land sharks. |
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http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=07194
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| | Waqf announces halt in Temple Mount construction |
| | The Waqf announcement came after it was revealed that for the first time since the Six day War, that the Waqf had been digging in the elevated area of the Temple Mount on which the Dome of the Rock stands. | | | The Muslim religious trust, Waqf, announced Sunday that no construction work will be carried out in the Temple Mount area on Sunday. | | | The Shin Bet has been telling Barak for the past few days that the long-term intention of the Waqf and the Islamic movement is to pave the area, build additional mosques and make the whole area one big mosque, thereby preventing Jews from entering the area. |
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http://www.har-habayt.org/haaretze21-01-01b.html
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| | Waqf Movement |
| | He also said that "if he is forced to start the Waqf Movement again then no negotiation will be held with the Government or the Administration." | | | It is important to mention that Maulana Kalbe Jawad Imam-e-Juma Lucknow was struggling along with the members of the Community to get the ownership and control over this Imambara. | | | Shias demanded last year that the Shia Waqf properties be protected and the monuments, which come under Shia Waqf Board, be conserved. |
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http://www.pasdaranehusain.com/waqf.html
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| | Taj Mahal not Waqf property: Records |
| | This disputes the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board's claim that the Taj is waqf property and that it should get the right to control and manageme it. | | | The magistrate had issued notices to the Archaelogical Survey of India and the Centre stating that it had received applications for the registration of Maqbara Shahjehan and Mumtaz Mahal property known as 'Taj Mahal' at Agra under the provision 36 of the Waqf Act, 1995. | | | A report prepared by the Tehsildar, in whose area the monument is located, said land records show that the Taj is Shahi Imarat (royal building), the sources added. |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/apr/04taj.htm
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