than praying in the school. Refraining from performing the obligatory prayers in al-Aqsā Mosque to ensure that one’s stipend is lawful is misguided scrupulousness that deprives its practitioner of the immense reward for praying in the mosque. And Allah knows best.

What do the esteemed scholars say concerning a founder who endowed a lodge for Sufis? This lodge had long followed the customary Sufi practice in such lodges regarding meals and gathering only after the afternoon prayer. A person then assumed its administration and sought to abolish its established practice, imposing conditions upon its residents that had never existed there before.

The residents perform the five daily prayers in this lodge and recite about one and a half of the Quran’s thirty parts after the dawn prayer, and about three parts after the afternoon prayer. If any resident misses a prayer or recitation, an absence is recorded against him, even though no endowment deed or stipulations are known for this lodge.

Is it permissible to introduce these conditions upon them or not? Does the person who introduces them incur sin or not? Is the current administrator permitted to record absences against them or not? Must these conditions be abolished or not? Will the ruler be rewarded for abolishing them or not?

If these conditions were stipulated by the founder, must they be fulfilled or not? Under what circumstances is a person entitled to this support? If someone among the residents is engaged in studying the Islamic religious sciences, does he have a stronger claim than someone who merely adopts an outward guise but possesses no knowledge? And someone who does not conduct himself