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ISLAMIC EDUCATION

Grade 10, Unit 2, Lesson 4

WAQF is GIVING &

GROWTH
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 Establishing a Waqf
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Learning Objectives

Initiative to Learn

Definition & Concept of Waqf

Establishing an Endowment.
Building a Civilization of Giving & Growth.
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 Learning Objectives
WAQF ‫وقف‬in Arabic means Endowment or Charity Establishment

Explain the Concept of Waqf

Analyse the Benefits of Waqf
Illustrate the virtue of Waqf
Distinguish between
Various types of Appreciate UAE’s efforts in
Waqf establishing Endowments

Explain the Role of Waqf in serving the Community

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 Initiative to Learn
What comes to your mind when someone says:
You Plant & It Grows?
What happens when you throw a stone in the river?
Have you ever noticed the ripples that are formed?

UAE AWQAF & ‘MAFHAS AL QATAH

• Read Page 76, and
• Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1xjmVZl8EI
• Submit your inputs!

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 Waqf: Definition & Concept
• ‘Restricting & Preventing’
Dedication of something a person owns for people’s benefit after his death.
Such ‘dedicated property or wealth’ cannot be sold or gifted or inherited after
the person’s death.
• ‘Preserving’
An endowment i.e. a voluntary and irrevocable dedication of one's wealth or a
portion of it - in cash or kind (such as a house or a garden), and its disbursement
for Shariah-compliant projects (such as mosques or schools, hospitals, burial
grounds, lodging centres etc.)

Definition of waqf according to Merriam-Webster dictionary:

1: an Islamic endowment of property to be held in trust and used for a charitable
or religious purpose
2: a Muslim religious or charitable foundation created by an endowed trust fund

Concept of Waqf
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 Concept of Waqf
Inspiration for Waqf:
“When a man dies, his deeds comes to an end except for
three: Sadaqah Jaariyah (ongoing charity); knowledge
which is beneficial; or a virtuous child who prays for his
(deceased) parent”. (Hadeeth)

“The rewards of the good deeds that will reach a believer after his
death are: Knowledge which he taught and spread; a righteous son
whom he leaves behind; a copy of the Qur'an that he leaves as a
legacy; a mosque that he built; a house that he built for wayfarers; a
canal that he dug; or charity that he gave during his lifetime when he
was in good health. These deeds will reach him after his death."
(Hadeeth)

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Reading Time
Waqf: Establishing an Endowment.
Building a Civilization of Giving & Growth.
Find out the Difference between Sadaqah and Waqf

Waqf of the Early Muslims / READING ACTIVITY

Conditions of Establishing a Waqf

Types of Endowment

Waqf is a Service to the Community

The UAE and WAQF

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 Sadaqah & Waqf
Aspect of Sadaqah Waqf
comparison
Points of
Dissimilarity

Points of
Similarity

Visit Awqaf website to find out the difference!

https://www.awqaf.gov.ae/en/definitionofwaqf

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Waqf of the Early Muslims:
Read page 78 and share your points of learning!

https://www.iwaqf.net/story/
Read the Story of Waqf & present your findings.

Awqaaf is the plural of Waqf

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 Conditions of Establising a Waqf
Recall the terminology used in the Waqf –
from your reading of page 78

The conditions are aimed at ensuring the sustainability of both the endowed object and
the utility that it yields so that the benefits serve the purpose for which a certain waqf
was established in the first place.

The conditions include:

1. The endower must be capable of handling financial matters. He must be an adult,
sound of mind, acting freely out of his own accord and not under compulsion and
must own the property he intends to donate as waqf.
2. The property established as waqf must be that which is valued, known and perpetual
in yielding benefit and extracting usufruct.
3. The beneficiary must be for a good and benevolent cause and not for any evil
purpose, and that It be cause that does not terminate or cease.
4. The declaration should be decisive and mandatory in its formation. It cannot be
concluded via a mere promise nor can it be done on some condition!

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 Types of Endowment
Endowments are classified on the basis of the party benefitting from the
Waqf. Based on this, there are three types of endowments:
1. Family (Ahli) Endowments: For the benefit of the relatives of the
Endower. It is also called as Private Waqf.
2. Charitable Endowments: For the benefit of the public such as the poor, or
public charity institutions.
3. Joint Endowments: A combination of Charitable and Family endowment.
Here, the Endower specifies a portion of the benefits for his family and
leaves the other portion to charitable deeds. For e.g. An endower making
his house a Trust to different beneficiaries such as his family and the poor
from the community.

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Waqf is a Service to the Community
Muslims are pioneers in charitable and philanthropic activities worldwide

Since the time of Prophet Muhammad (sal..) through the ages, Muslims have
become increasing sophisticated in innovating diverse aims and areas of
establishing Waqf. Not a single domain of charity is left without Muslims founding
a waqf for the benefit of the posterity.
A few examples are the Endowments/Awqaf related to:
• mosques, their utilities and supplies etc.
• academic and cultural libraries
• schools, educational research, scholarships..
• social services concerning women, poor, labourers, unemployed
• health services such as hospitals, clinics, nursing homes etc.
• environmental care such as maintaining water channels etc.
• birds and animals.

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 The UAE & Waqf
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of UAE, was
the visionary leader who founded many Awqaf in diverse charitable
causes both in UAE & outside UAE.

Sheikh Zayed’s initiatives encompass all members of

society regardless of religion, material or financial
standing. His charitable work extended even to include
plants and birds.
Rulers, merchants, corporate businesses and even ordinary
citizens follow in his footsteps to make donations to a
collective waqf whose benefits reach far & wide.

Visit the UAE Awqaf website to have a glance at the Waqf Projects:
https://www.awqaf.gov.ae/en/waqfprojects

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Benefits of Waqf
 Benefits of Waqf
Positive Effects on close Relatives Positive Effects on benevolent causes

Benefits of Waqf for the Individual Benefits of Waqf for the Community

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 Benefits of Waqf
The Role of the Waqf in achieving the essential higher
purposes of Shariah
1. Preservation of Religion

2. Preservation of the Intellect

3. Preservation of the self/soul

4. Preservation of wealth

5. Preservation of lineage

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Jazakumullaahu Khayra

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