Religious affairs adviser AFM Khalid Hossain at a programme in Dhaka on Saturday said that all the waqf estates would be brought under digitisation to ensure their proper and smooth management.
鈥榃e have taken up some measures for the smooth management of the waqf estates,鈥� he said while addressing as chief guest at an exchange of views and general meeting of the Motawalli Samity, Bangladesh, at the Hamdard Auditorium of Rupayan Tower in Dhaka.
A separate bench in the High Court has already been constituted for hearing of the waqf related cases only, he added.
Khalid said, 鈥榃aqf is a part and parcel of Islamic culture and it has been continuing since the period of prophet (PBUH) for people鈥檚 welfare and services to the mankind.鈥�
鈥楾he motive of the founders of the waqf was very honest and they made their valuable properties as waqf only for the satisfaction of Allah, people鈥檚 service and welfare and eternal relief,鈥� he said.
He urged all the Motawallies to remain alert as the noble initiatives of the waqifs are not hampered.
All activities of the waqf administration should be run in light with the laws and rules, Khalid said, adding that the Motawallies are not the owners of the waqf estates, they are only its mangers.
He said that none would be appointed as Motawalli beyond its deeds and urged all Motawallies to be corrected.
Chaired by the president of Motawalli Samity Hakim Md Yusuf Harun Bhuiyan, its secretary general Md Alamgir Kabir Patwari presented a proposal for mitigating the problems of the estates.
The adviser gave a patient hearing on the 14-point proposal of the samity and assured of its implementation as per logic.
Information and mass communication director of the Waqf Estate Amirul Momenin Manik also addressed the meeting where the leaders and workers of Motawalli Samity were present.