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Endowment, Fountainhead of Benevolence

Endowment is a social, cultural and economic movement which has focused on some problems of Muslim societies resolving them well. As well as, endowment is a medium which reflects the message of friendship, love, generosity, service, sacrifice and faith.
The history of Islam is full of various endowed objects and items such as mosques, schools, clinics, gardens, subterranean canals and etc. not only in Islam, but in some other religions endowment has been common. History is a witness that human beings have been meditating how to remain eternal. Wherever we travel, we see centers, buildings and edifices which have been built for poor people and for the sake promotion of knowledge, supporting religious institutes and advancement of public utility affairs. However, helping needy people and paying attention to Muslims to charity works have been important due to emphases in the Qur’an and Sunnah.
Būkhara is one of the important cities in the history of Islam which was one the outstanding scientific centers of Islam in the period of Samanid dynasty. Hundreds of Mūhadditheen, jurists and philosophers got education at schools of this city. The grand university of Qūrtūbah was active in the fourth Hijri century. The House of Wisdom was established in the era of Mamoun Abbāsi. Al-Azhar University is also one of the famous endowed centers. The Nizāmīyyah schools of Khwājah Nezām-ul-Mūlk in Baghdad, Herat, Marv, Esfahan and Balkh were also endowed which provided educational services.
Whoever studies on endowment, s/he will clearly witness social cooperation and benignity, sacrifice, benefaction and extension of the spirit of humanitarianism among Muslims. Even the circle of sympathy and benignity crosses humane relations to animals. These endowed items and charities generally conclude all honorable aims such as feeding hungers, dressing clothless ones, settling needy people, providing treatment to ills, educating illiterates, funeral and burial of dead people, giving all needs of orphans and supporting poor parts of society.
For further details look at different kinds of endowments carried out and implemented by those philanthropist and noble people who noticed exquisite points:

Translated into English and published by Neday Islam magazine