The ruling on revoking a land endowment
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Question:
He says: If I said that this agricultural land is an endowment (waqf) for the poor, and then I revoked it, is my revocation valid?
Answer:
If you intended it to be a binding endowment during your lifetime, you do not revoke it; it is not permissible for you to revoke it because it has exited your ownership. However, if you said that this land is an endowment for the poor after my death, this has the ruling of a bequest; it takes the ruling of a bequest. You may retract it before death, and if death occurs, it is paid out from the one-third. If it is one-third or less, it is executed. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Shaykh,
He says: If I said that this agricultural land is an endowment (waqf) for the poor, and then I revoked it, is my revocation valid?
Answer:
If you intended it to be a binding endowment during your lifetime, you do not revoke it; it is not permissible for you to revoke it because it has exited your ownership. However, if you said that this land is an endowment for the poor after my death, this has the ruling of a bequest; it takes the ruling of a bequest. You may retract it before death, and if death occurs, it is paid out from the one-third. If it is one-third or less, it is executed. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Shaykh,
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/016 — archive.org (11:58)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.