The ruling on waqf (endowment) by intention without verbal declaration
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it required to announce the intention of waqf, or is it that once he intends it, he is not allowed to retract that intention?
The Shaykh:
Intention alone is not sufficient; the verbal declaration is necessary. As for waqf by intention alone, it does not become valid. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Except in the case of intention combined with an action, as you heard regarding the one who made his land a mosque, where the intention is accompanied by an action or by speech. As for intention alone, without an action and without speech, nothing becomes valid by it. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it required to announce the intention of waqf, or is it that once he intends it, he is not allowed to retract that intention?
The Shaykh:
Intention alone is not sufficient; the verbal declaration is necessary. As for waqf by intention alone, it does not become valid. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Except in the case of intention combined with an action, as you heard regarding the one who made his land a mosque, where the intention is accompanied by an action or by speech. As for intention alone, without an action and without speech, nothing becomes valid by it. Yes.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - ٠٦٣-باب الوقف - الهبة - ٢٩-١-٢٤ هـ — archive.org (1:20:11)
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