Appointing a Non-Muslim as Mutawalli of a Shrine and a Mosque

Question

The management of the property of a saint’s shrine is in the hands of a non-Muslim who manages it and safeguards the income with great devotion, and spends it on the heads of expenditure. If its management is entrusted to some local Muslim, there is a strong fear of loss. In such a situation can the Waqf Board make him mutawalli or not? Is it necessary to be a Muslim for trusteeship (tawliya), or not? These are endowments whose trusteeship is not assigned by name, nor is there any legatee (musa lahu)

Answer

Reading your letter caused me great sorrow. You have written that if the management of the waqf property is entrusted to Muslims there is a strong fear of loss; and that the non-Muslim manages it and safeguards the income with great devotion and spends it on the prescribed heads of expenditure; and also that in South India there are several mosques whose management is…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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