The Progeny (Offspring) Endowment: A Comparative Jurisprudential Study

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مقيدة ومسجلة بالدراسات العليا في قسم الدراسات الإسلامية - كلية الآداب - جامعة جنوب الوادي

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The progeny (offspring) endowment has a significant position in Islam, which is evident through its lofty goals that serve the Islamic community members in a way that does not harm the donor’s interests, his/her descendants, and relatives. This is in addition to the status of the endowment among the theology Imams and religious scholars. They are still preoccupied with this issue of progeny (offspring) endowment, and they tackle and discuss it through jurisprudence councils, seminars, and conferences. This is because the progeny (offspring) endowment is an application of the principles of cooperation, solidarity and righteousness.
The progeny (offspring) endowment is considered one of the most widespread endowments. This is due to the many purposes of the donors towards this type of endowment, including the following purposes:

Ensuring that a financial source for the offspring remains continuous.
Fear of heirs squandering wealth.
The presence of weak heirs, so the donor fears losing their rights.
Depriving daughters and their sons of inheritance. This is in addition to other purposes that make the progeny (offspring) endowment widely spread despite the recent introduction of this specific term among contemporary theology scholars and Imams.

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Journal of Qena Faculty of Arts
Volume 32, Issue 58
January (Humanities)
January 2023
Pages 1115-1144

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