1. If a person turns something into a Waqf, it ceases to be his property, and neither he nor anybody else can either gift it or sell it to any person. Also, no one can inherit anything out of it.

2. It is not necessary to utter the formal declaration of Waqf. Therefore, if a person spreads a mat in a mosque with an intention of Waqf, the Waqf will automatically be established.

3. It is necessary that the person who makes a Waqf should be Baligh and sane, and should be doing so of his free will and intention. Also, he should have the right, according to Shariah, of disposal and discretion over his property.

4. If a property is given as a waqf for the maintenance of a mosque, and that mosque does not stand in need of repairs, and it is also not expected that it will need repairs for quite some time, and if it is not possible to collect and deposit the accrual till such time when it could be used for the repairs, then, as an obligatory precaution, the income should be used for the purposes which has nearest conformity with the intention of the one who waqfed it, like spending it in other needs of the same mosque, or for the repairs of any other mosque.

 

Wallahualam.

 

For every cent means saving a precious life.