Deed of Wakf
| Updated at | March 2010 |
To all to whom these presents shall come I ………… wife of ………… a Mahomedan by faith and religion governed by sunni/shia school of Mahomedan Law etc. send greeting whereas I am of my free will and own accord desirous of permanently dedicating my properties, movable and immovable, fully mentioned and described in the schedule hereunder written for purposes recognised by the Mahomedan Law as religious, pious and/or charitable now know ye and I hereby declare as follows:
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I dedicate all the properties mentioned and described in the schedule hereunder written with all appurtenances and the rents, issues and profits thereof absolutely and permanently by way of wakf for the purposes as aforesaid with intent to extinguish all my rights and claim therein and vest the same in God and complete the same by delivery of possession to the mutawalli in the manner hereinafter mentioned.
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The ultimate benefit under this wakf is reserved for purposes and objects recognised by the Hanafi or Sunni School of Mahomedan Law as religious, pious and/or charitable and indicated in the paragraph next succeeding.
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The purposes and objects referred to in the last preceding paragraph are inter alia as follows:
(i) The payment of my just debts.
(ii) The maintenance and support of myself and my ………
(iii) The distribution of alms to poor and indigent persons on every Thursday in the week the amount or value of such weekly alms not to be less than Rupees ……….
(iv) The observance of the tenth day of Mohurrum by distribution of milk and other food.
(v) The celebration of ceremonies known as Mound Shariff.
(vi) To help poor and meritorious students professing Islam faith and reading in any recognised institution.
(vii) The performance of the annual fateha of myself after my death and of my husband after his death and the members of ………… .
(viii) Other religious, pious and/or charitable purposes as may be thought fit by the mutawalli from time to time or a court of law including pecuniary reliefs or assistance to indigent members of my family and the family of my ……….
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The moneys which may be realized by execution of the decrees in the suits mentioned in the said schedule hereto shall, after payment therefrom of my debts, be invested in landed properties and such landed properties shall form a part of the estate hereby made wakf estate.
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Out of the income of the said wakf estate the said ……… shall each receive a monthly sum of not more than Rs ……… only for the benefit of...
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