19 - The reformer says:

"The cause of the increase in the properties of awqaf is not because of piousness or goodness but because of the pillagers' giving one percent of the houses they have pillaged as alms to a mosque, to a madrasa or to a Darwish lodge in order to guarantee the ninety-nine percent for their own and their children's advantage, lest someone might pillage the wealth they have pillaged."

The principles concerning awqaf should not be discussed in such ignorant terms but by examining minutely. To be brief, fortunately the religious foundations have survived without changing up to now, and as the result, the properties which amounts to almost half of the State's budget has been reserved for the nation. If it had not been for the principles of religious foundations, may be this great wealth would have no longer existed today.