The law where a waqf is made

How to read these pages

Two things have to be true of a waqf. It has to be sound in Shariah, which is the same wherever it is made, and it has to hold in the law of the place it is made, which is not. Forms of waqf covers the first, with the scholar’s ruling and the sources behind each one. These pages cover the second.

The platform takes no view of the law. Every rule on these pages belongs to the institution that recorded it, for the awqaf it looks after, on its own counsel’s advice. Each one says what it asks for, the law it rests on, and whether the institution is stating its own reading or resting on an opinion of counsel. Where it rests on an opinion, the words of that opinion are quoted, and the advocate is named by their standing and firm, never personally.

A rule does not make a waqf. It decides one thing: what has to exist, on paper, before the platform counts the property as held by the waqf, and what a waqf’s passport says when nothing is registered.

Countries

• India19 rules recorded by 1 institution

A country appears here once an institution working in it has recorded a rule. An institution that administers awqaf here records its own rules, for its own awqaf, and they appear under its name. How an institution joins.