Legacy & Major Gift Program
Assesses the formal program for legacy and major gifts, which operationalizes *Sadaqa Jāriyah*. This secures long-term sustainability, deepens donor trust through stewardship, and ensures enduring community benefit, fulfilling the organization's *Amānah* (trust) to its stakeholders. The program includes robust restricted-fund governance, conflict-of-interest controls, and risk-based due diligence to protect the charity’s reputation and ensure donor stipulations are honoured lawfully and Islamically.
Al-Muslimūn ʿalā shurūṭihim
Muslims are bound by their conditions. Donor stipulations must be honoured unless they contradict Shariah.
Lā ḍarar wa lā ḍirār
No harm and no reciprocating harm. Used to guide gift refusal decisions (e.g., reputationally toxic gifts).
Sadaqa Jāriyah
Ongoing charity or gifts intended to yield enduring benefit after one's death.
Amānah
The sacred trust of honoring donor intent, ensuring prudent stewardship, and maintaining transparent reporting.
Waqf
The classical Islamic model for structuring, investing, and governing perpetual endowments or gifts.
Iḥsān
Excellence that goes beyond mere compliance, demanding due diligence, ethical screening, and Shariah-compliant processes.
Maṣlaḥah
Public interest. The program must be managed to achieve the greatest public good and enduring community benefit.
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