Endowment: Ownership & Authority in Donor-Funded Waqf Creation

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Endowment: Ownership & Authority in Donor-Funded Waqf Creation

English:

Question #2004:

A group of people raised a sum of money with a view to buying some property and using it as a ḥusayniyyah. Should their work in raising the money entitle them to set up the endowment under the title of ḥusayniyyah or do they have to take a power of attorney from the donors? A property can be made waqf only by the owner or someone who is ruled as the owner while they are not the owner, is by fund raising, now they are ruled as the owner and eligible to endow it?

Answer #2004:

If they were acting as agents for the donors in preparing the property to be used as a ḥusayniyyah after they had bought it, setting up the endowment deed in their capacity as agents of the donors would be valid.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Endowments