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Akhuwat Foundation. Akhuwat Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Pakistan, offers interest-free loans to individuals who lack access to formal financial services. [1] [2] Founded in 2003 by Dr. Muhammad Amjad Saqib, who serves as the executive director, Akhuwat operates its head office in Lahore and has expanded to over 1,500 cities in ...
The Edhi Foundation (Urdu: ایدھی فاؤنڈیشن) is a non-profit social welfare organization based in Pakistan. It was founded by Abdul Sattar Edhi [4] in 1951, who served as the head of the organization until his death on 8 July 2016. Bilquis Edhi, a nurse by profession, used to oversee the maternity and adoption services of the foundation.
The only significant distinction between the Islamic waqf and English trust was "the express or implied reversion of the waqf to charitable purposes when its specific object has ceased to exist", [55] though this difference only applied to the waqf ahli (Islamic family trust) rather than the waqf khairi (devoted to a charitable purpose from its ...
Abdul Sattar Edhi NI LPP (Urdu: عبد الستار ایدھی; 28 February 1928 [6] – 8 July 2016) [1] [7] [2] [8] was a Pakistani humanitarian, philanthropist and ascetic who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest ambulance network, [9] along with homeless shelters, animal shelters, [10] rehabilitation centres, and orphanages across Pakistan.
AED. Al-Khair Foundation. Adventist Development and Relief Agency Pakistan. AFS Intercultural Exchanges. American Himalaya Foundation. Arab-Pakistani Fund. Akhuwat Foundation. Asian Human Rights Development Organization. Association for the Development of Pakistan.
Ṣadaqah ( Arabic: صدقة [ˈsˤɑdæqɑ], * "charity", "benevolence", [ 1] plural ṣadaqāt صدقات [sˤɑdæˈqɑːt]) in the modern Islamic context has come to signify "voluntary charity ". [ 2] According to the Quran, the word means a voluntary offering, whose amount is at the will of the benefactor. [ 3] It is similar to zakat, or ...
Urdu Daira Maarif Islamiya or Urdu Encyclopaedia of Islam ( Urdu: اردو دائرہ معارف اسلامیہ) is the largest Islamic encyclopedia published in Urdu by University of the Punjab. Originally it is a translated, expanded and revised version of Encyclopedia of Islam. Its composition began in the 1950s at University of the Punjab.
The name of the foundation, ‘Al-Khair’, is translated to mean ‘goodness’ in Arabic. [5] The AKF began as an Islamic school in Croydon in 2003. [6] It evolved into a service organisation to the UK community first, with an initial focus on education, and also charity work. The founder of the AKF School is the Imam, Imam Qasim. [2]