الأوقاف الإلكترونية

Abstract EN

Praise be to Allah and May peace and blessings of Allah be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family and companions.

Islamic Jurists use the term waqf “endowment” in its infinitive form, not as a noun and they often define it in this sense.

In this paper, Electronic Endowments refers to websites and electronic applications whose profits are donated by the owner, not the programs.

Electronic endowments could be similar to fixed assets, utilities, or just rights to use.

The preponderant view is that of the majority of scholars about the condition of properties, that is anything offered for people to use lawfully.

This definition applies to electronic items.

The conditions listed by the jurists of the endowed money include unanimously agreed practices or controversial ones.

The former applies to electronic endowment and is explored in detail by the author of this paper outlining his view on this issue.

The different forms of Islamic endowments and their rulings can be identified as follows: - Endowing websites is valid as long as they provide lawful benefits.

- To endow the domain names of websites is valid.

- To endow data and information is valid.

- Software, applications, codes and algorithms can also be endowed.

- Rights of programming can be endowed, based on the validity of endowing abstract rights.

- As to storage services, it is not valid to rent storage capacities for endowment but it can be considered charity.