Finding a handwritten, gilded Qur'an manuscript marked as waqf (endowment): Is it permissible to sell it?

The questioner:
'Abd al-'Aziz from Jeddah, please, 'Abd al-'Aziz, please, peace be upon you.

The Shaykh:
Peace. May Allah keep you in good, O Shaykh. May Allah keep you all in good.

The questioner:
After my father passed away, I found in the box a handwritten Qur'an manuscript that is three hundred years old, but it is written on as a handwritten waqf (endowment) and it is gilded now.

The Shaykh:
Is it a waqf? It is still a waqf.

The questioner:
Okay, so what is the solution now? It is gilded and brings a value, so what do we do with it?

The Shaykh:
No, it is not sold.

The questioner:
Okay, so what is the solution?

The Shaykh:
This is not sold. The solution is that you take it to a public library from the public libraries that accept manuscripts and give it to them as a waqf (endowment).

The questioner:
I mean a government library.

The Shaykh:
Yes, a government one.

The questioner:
Or is that right? If you gave it to the Prophet's Mosque, for example, it is an endowment in the Prophet's Mosque, if you gave it to the Prophet's Mosque, for example.

The Shaykh:
Yes, give it to the library of the Prophet's Mosque.

The questioner:
Yes, but it cannot be sold at all.

The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to sell a waqf (endowment), my brother.

The presenter:
It is not permissible. May Allah reward you with good. Thank you, thank you, may Allah bless you.