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make it yield profit by being employed in business (mud- 
arabah'), the profit being given to the sick--Muhit. The waqf 
of dirhams and articles sold by measure and weight is valid 
in the same way. 
LVII. THe Fatawa Bazzaziyyau (MS. in the Calcutta 
Madrasah, p. 319). 
If a man makes waqf of dirhams and dinars or of food 
grains or of articles sold by measure or weight, it is valid. 
The coins and the price of what is not coin (e.g., articles sold 
by measure or weight), after their sale, should be invested 
in mudarabah or bida‘ah,.' and the profit arising therefrom 
should be spent for the purposes of the wagf. 
LVIII. THe Waar‘at-at-Murtin (p. 74, Cairo Ed.). 
. It is reported from Zufar that when a person makes a 
waqf of dirhams or grain or what is estimated by measure 
or weight, it is valid. 
Marginal note 1.—It is laid down in the Fatawd Natiji on 
the authority of Muhammad b. ‘Abd-Allah al- Ansari, one of the 
companions of Zufar, that the waqf of dirhams and grain and 
what is estimated by measure and weight is valid. 
LIX. Fataws Manpiyyag (Ed. Cairo). 
Question._The following question was asked on behalf of 
the agent of the Finance Department :—A native of Mecca 
named Ahmad Jalabi is the Mutawalli of a house which is a 
private waqf. The house is acquired by the Government to 
include it in the palace of the wife of our late great ruler; and 
as it is a private waqf, the payment of its price has been with- 
held for the purpose of its exchange (istibdal). Now the agent 
of the owner of the above-mentioned house has submitted a 
petition to the effect that the remaining portion of the waqf 
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