A Mutawalli Spending Waqf Income on His Family

Question

In Goalpara there was a Khurasani spiritual guide, Sayyid Abu al-Qasim, who lived about a hundred years ago. During that time a son of the said guide passed away and was buried in the Muslims’ graveyard. Some years after the son, the said guide ﵀ also departed this world; it is now about seventy-five years since he was laid to rest, and he too was buried in this same general graveyard. Between the graves of father and son there is a distance of only three quarters of a cubit.

Answer

1. If the purpose of those who give the money is only to help and support the custodian of the shrine, then the society is not permitted to take possession of it and spend it on other things. If they give it for the protection of the graveyard as a whole, and not for the custodian of the shrine alone, then those who are responsible for the whole graveyard have the right to…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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