دور الوقف في مواجهة الجوائح والكوارث الطبيعية والبيئية: أزمة جائحة كوفيد-19 أنموذجا

الملخص EN

Endowment funds are considered the strategic stockpile for the protection of society and its needs, as it is used to preserve religion, soul, mind, honor, and money.

There are many crises and problems facing society from the effects of pandemics and natural and environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, torrential rains, floods, landslides, hurricanes, and others.

These crises cause many losses and damages to the individual and society, whether these losses are human, material, environmental or economic.

The research problem is related to the endowment having a prominent role in confronting these dangerous disasters and epidemics, with a focus on the (Covid-19) pandemic [COVID-19], which is now threatening the whole world.

This study indicates the importance of benefiting from previous endowment experiences in reviving the Relief Endowment Foundation, the Health Endowment, and the Environmental Endowment, through the endowment funds established by the General Secretariat of Endowments in the State of Kuwait.

The study also calls for the establishment of an international body for endowment or specialized global endowment institutions interested in its support for poor countries to face pandemics and crises.

As well as to develop the roles of those in charge of the Islamic endowment in activating the role of the endowment in the face of crises, and the interest that the endowment have a prominent role in supporting scientific research to keep pace with the changes of the times, and to address the crises and pandemics it faces.