Zeinoul Cajee from AwqafSA conducted a Waqf training session and this is an Overview of the Ugandan visit.
Ugandan muslims are highly educated and they hold quite a few PHD’s and they have well qualified Shayks and Imams.
AwqafSA has identified a need to have a strategic relationship with the the Ugandan Muslim Community. Uganda has a beautiful university called the The Islamic University in Uganda that has 4 Campuses including a Medical University and a 150 bed hospital on the same campus. The land for the university is waqf and was granted by Prince Cassim.
Uganda has a very interesting history. Islam came as late as 1844. King Mutesa embraced Islam at the hands of an Arab/Swahili Trader. Mutesa called on his people to embrace Islam. And learnt and taught. The Ugandan mother tongue is Swahili and Arabic.
Makerere University boasts many are Muslim Professors and Prof. Abasi is a professor of Literature and a devout activist as well.
The rector of the islamic University in Uganda urged Africans to be self reliant citing the crisis in the middle east and elsewhere and stated:
AFRICA YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. DONT DEPEND ON OTHERS. WE MUST BUILD UP OUR OWN INSTITUTIONS OF WAQF AND ZAKAH.
Shaykh Taliep from IPSA university during his talk emphasised the Maqasid of Waqf as promoting Al Khayr – goodness and in the public interest in line with the maqasid of the shariah – the higher objectives of the Shariah.
Zeinoul Cajee spoke about the justification and rationale for establishing the waqf system and shared a few examples from the lives of the pious and righteous Sahabah (RA) and the sunnah of Nabi Muhammad (s).
Dr Osman provided models of financing Waqf assets and highlighted various forms.
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