Yasir Qadhi – Endowments and the Flourishing of Islamic Scholars

			endowment can be for anybody, you are the person who is in charge of the endowment, you are the one
who gets to decide, you are the one who gets to decide who uses the endowment. So, for example, you
can say that when I die, this garden shall be used for the orphans of this particular madrasa. Or
you can say, it will be used for the full Quran of this city, or you can still be used for my family
members who are poor, you as the person who chooses the endowment has the right to put all the
conditions that you want on it. And it can be as specific or as general as you want. Historically
speaking, the reason why scholarship and mustards flourished in Islam was not because of the state,
		

			it was because of the endowments.
		

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			the reason why scholarship was independent. One of the biggest problems that has taken place is that
in the last 150 years, after the advent of colonialism, the old off was acquired by the governments
		

			and what the used to be independent, became dependent upon the government. Simple example of us her
for example, not to be controversial, but less than 100 years ago, was when us her was acquired by
the government. And there was a huge
		

			rebellion by the Obama versa. They didn't want to be acquired. Because once you're acquired, you're
in big trouble. You are salaried employees. You cannot speak your mind. You have influence, so on so
forth, our Allama How did our Allama used to live once upon a time who would take care of them?
That's the beauty of the classical system was independent, once you are associated with the madrasa
with his masjid, so people will leave endowment for the madrasa and they will say, When I die, this
building will be rented out and the profits will go to the running of the madrasa. So the madrasa
board is getting money from different sources, and they don't have to respond to a politician,
		

			assault on an emir, they are independent. And so Obama flourished because of this. The salaries of
the hot leaves and Imams was not the government was not the whole of up. Unfortunately, this is the
modern reality of most countries in the Arab and Muslim world. Correct. So when the government is
paying your salary, guess what? Your whole tuba is influenced by your salary.
		

			It's human nature. Right. And this is one of the biggest problems that has happened, that you and
the fact of the matter is, we also have the same issue here in North America where a lot of times
the masjid board will control what the Imam says, right? Where the Imam cannot be independent.
Hamdulillah I am independent, don't worry, Hamdulillah that was my one of my first conditions and
hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah. This is the reality as well at Hamdulillah. As you all know, and this is
before the light Allah upon Allah's blessings on all of us, Al Hamdulillah, that in this community
Hamdulillah we are very, very blessed. But the fact of the matter is, let's be real here.
		

			How common is it, that the Imam says something that is too strict for the community, the board
doesn't like it.
		

			And then the he gets fired, because why? Because the board did not like what the Imam said. So
what's going to happen, the Imams, learn, keep quiet, and preach the version of Islam that the board
wants. What type of benefit will come from the OMA in this manner. So this is one of the biggest
benefits of the O cough system.
		

			This was the benefit of the cough system that caused our OMA to flourish. And one of the causes of
decline of the aroma was the destruction of the knockoff and the acquirement of the governments of
what the knockoff used to do, even in the Khilafah building messages and madrasahs and the salaries
of the religious clergy was not under the Khalifa. And this is one of the biggest blessings of Allah
upon the OMA because you don't want it linked together. Anyway, went to too long tangent but that
was to answer your question. We need to revive this concept. And again, there's actually books
written on this. The concept of an endowment is Islamic. The western world did not know what
		

			endowment is.
		

			It did not know what an endowment it is an Islamic concept that was then acquired by the Western
institutions and then they built upon it and they took it to a different level but the
		

			In reality, the first civilization to have something like an endowment where the officer or the
structure remains, and the profits benefit something else, and nobody can sell or buy or acquire the
muscle, whether it's a garden, whether it's a building, in our case and the amount of money which is
in stocks, for example, that amount cannot be touched. This is new in human civilization. Nobody
before these ahaadeeth ever more than others gave that principle and that's why it's so important
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