Intending to give land to a madrasa does not end ownership

Question

A certain person had firmly resolved to give some land to a Dars-i Nizami (the traditional madrasa curriculum of South Asia) madrasa. Later that madrasa was affiliated with the government, and it did not remain a purely religious madrasa. Can he give this land to some other madrasa or not?

Answer

By merely promising and intending, that land did not leave his ownership. If he now wishes to give it to whichever religious madrasa, there is permission for it from the Shari‘a.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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