Waqf Culture

Dr. Ahmed Abdulaziz Alhaddad

05 May 2023

The endowment is one of the creations of Islamic jurisprudence, and its culture has spread in the world, benefiting humans, animals and the environment, and it is a consensus year, as the scholars said, may God have mercy on them, and it was a societal culture in the different eras of Islam, especially the era of early Islam, until the great companion Jaber bin Abdullah (may God be pleased with them) said: "No one of the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, had the ability except to endow", that is, imprisoning something from his property, farms, or other things that remain its origin And its fruit and benefit, all of this is a haste to do the good that God Almighty urged in many verses, as in the saying of Glory be to Him: ﴿You will not receive righteousness until you spend what you love and what you spend, God knows it﴾, this verse says that righteousness is a great thing that can only be obtained by great effort, which is spending from the beloved, and the greatest beloved for a person is the money that he may love very much, which is what the Companions understood may God be pleased with them, this is Abu Talha Al-Ansari (may God be pleased with them) As soon as Allah heard this noble verse, he rose up to the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah, Allah is blessed and exalted says: "You will not receive righteousness until you spend what you love", and if I love my money to me with a blessing, and it is charity to Allah, I hope for its righteousness and its treasure with Allah, so put it, O Messenger of Allah, where Allah sees you, and the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: Abu Talha said: "I do, O Messenger of Allah," and Abu Talha divided it among his relatives and cousins.

Look at how the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) gave this charity, and showed him that this is the great profit that the wise person seeks to like, and then advised him to make it in his kinship relationship to combine the great reward of the endowment, and the great reward of kinship ties, which is a reason for blessing in livelihood and longevity, as mentioned in another hadith, and this is from the perfection of advice from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) to those who advised him, and so did our master Omar (may Allah be pleased with him), for when he hit the ground with Khaybar The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came to ask him about it, and he said: "O Messenger of Allaah, I have hit the ground in Khaybar and I have never suffered money from it, so what do you command me to do with it?" He said: If you want, you will lock up its origin and give charity to it, but its origin is not sold, nor bought, given or inherited, so Umar gives it to the poor, relatives, necks, the son of the way and the guest, there is no wing on the one who is her guardian to eat from it, or feed a friend with favor, who is not in it, or he said: not funded in it.

It was the case of Muslims in every era and Egypt on such a case of endowment dearest money for the benefit of man himself by saving the reward with his Lord, as it is the one who remains for him after his death, and the benefit of others, who competes like the virtues, what science spreads only thanks to the endowment, and students of science and scientists live only with the proceeds of the endowment, and the patients were treated only from the blessing of the endowment, but the animals and birds had great care of the endowment, and say Like that in a lot of what people need than less or more.

And the postponement of the endowment is feeding and watering that are the basis of life, as it is in the «Endowment of One Billion Meals» initiated by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, and the haste of people in it, so congratulations to those who had the luck of this great good.

«Chief Mufti Director of the Ifta Department in Dubai»

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