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Awqaf America Main navigation Home Awqaf America Awqaf are assets that are permanently dedicated to charitable purposes meaning they cannot be sold transferred or inherited and the income generated from them must be used for the benefit of the community essentially preventing the movement of ownership to any private individualthe word itself translates to to hold or to stop in Arabic. That means once the assets has been designated as a Awqaf they cannot be sold given as inheritance or as gifts. This simple notion leads to empowering consequences e. g.