Leading the prayer and giving the call to prayer are religious observances that may neither be discontinued nor curtailed under any circumstances. The allowance assigned to those who perform them therefore takes precedence over what the jurists receive. This differs from the teacher, the instructor and the jurists, who all belong to the same category.

If the cost of the mats and filling the cistern can be paid from the third allocated to maintenance, or from another source, this should be done, leaving the two thirds intact for those entitled to them. For if it is stipulated that one third is for maintenance and two thirds for the officeholders, there is no greater reason to charge the cost of the mats and similar expenses to one share rather than the other—unless the endowment has a stipulation valid under Islamic law that provides otherwise.

He was asked:

Someone endowed a burial place and stipulated that its Quran reciter must be unmarried. Is it permissible for a married man to take up this post?

He answered:

This stipulation is invalid. A married man has a stronger claim to such a position than an unmarried man if they are equal in all other respects, since remaining unmarried serves no purpose recognized by Islamic law here.