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QIA Endowment
QIA educates children from a wide variety of backgrounds and extends scholarships to refugees, orphans, and children from the surrounding neighborhoods Detroit. With our heartfelt welcome and respect, we present to you the QIA endowment.
In order to secure its financial situation, QIA successfully purchased a commercial building on Michigan Avenue, and yet still needs to go under renovations. Under an Islamic endowment QIA will receive a sustainable income to support the Quranic programs of the institute and continue to welcome students of all financial circumstances.
Through the endowment, the renovated property generating income 8000 a month to 120k a year. The property will consist of two commercial rentals on the first floor and four rental apartments on the second floor. WIth your generous support for the QIA endowment, our hope is that the work and vision of QIA will continue to grow for many years and generations to come.
Endowments played an essential role in establishing institutions of knowledge and strengthening pillars of Islamic civilization. In a spirit of brotherhood, believers came together for a good cause, fulfilling the Prophetic principle: “Believers to one another are like a building’s foundation, holding each other up.”
All over the Islamic world, Islamic endowments were put to work in strengthening the religion in the souls of the believers, protecting the institution of dawah, and ensuring that good works were able to continue and spread. There are many references in the Islamic Shariah that emphasize the role of the endowment in the Muslim ummah. Allah (SWT) says, “You will not attain piety until you spend from what you love.” (Aal Imran:92)
Some specific examples of endowments in Islamic history are:
· Prophet Muhammad (encouraged his companions to dig up a well, saying,
“Whoever uncovers the well of Rawma will have Paradise.” Uthman ibn Affan, may Allah be pleased with him, raced to dig the well in order to establish a charity that would yield continuous results.
· When Umar ibn Al-Khattab received some land, he went to the Prophet and said, “I have never had wealth like this before, so I wish to give it in charity.” The Prophet replied, “Keep the property but donate its profits.” (Nisa’i, authenticated by Al- Albani)
In the first century after the Prophet, the righteous predecessors followed this example and continued the precedent of investing money for charitable causes. They established many charitable endowments and involved their financial contributions to meet the needs and circumstances of their times. Endowments were used to maintain mosques and pay the salaries of Imams, teachers, and employees of the mosques.