|Part of a series on| A waqf also spelled wakf, (Arabic: وقف,
pronounced [ˈwɑqf]; plural Arabic: أوقاف, awqāf; Turkish: vakıf,
Urdu: وقف ) is, under the context of 'sadaqah', an inalienable
religious endowment in Islamic law, typically donating a
building or plot of land or even cash for Muslim religious or
charitable purposes. The donated assets are held by a charitable
trust. The grant is known as mushrut-ul-khidmat, while a person
making such dedication is known as wakif. ||This section needs
additional citations for verification. (March 2011)| The term
waqf literally means "confinement and prohibition" or causing a
thing to stop or stand still. The legal meaning of Waqf
according to Imam Abu Hanifa, is the detention of specific thing
in the ownership of waqif and the devoting of its profit or
products "in charity of poors or other good objects". Imam Abu
Yusuf and Imam Muhammad say: Waqf signifies the extinction of
the waqif's ownership in the thing dedicated and detention of
all the thing in the implied