Tue, Jun 18, 2013
A A A
Welcome bhaimia
RSS

Islamic Finance Briefing - Categorized | Funds more

Singapore: New Wakaf fund for Islamic education created‎

Posted on 09 March 2012

The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) will be creating a new Muslim endowment fund beginning with a capital sum of $3 million for the benefit of Islamic education. This was announced in Parliament by Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim.
Over the last two centuries, Muslim pioneer philanthropists have created wakaf, or Muslim endowment. The annual income from these wakaf supports the funding of religious and charitable programmes in perpetuity………………………………………..Full Article: Source

 
Article link

This post was written by:

Laxman - who has written 19163 posts on Opalesque Islamic Finance Briefing.


Contact the author

Comments are closed.

banner
June 2013
M T W T F S S
« May    
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930