New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- The Supreme Court on Monday found favour with the constitutional validity of the provision in the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025 requiring a person to have practised Islam for at least five years before creating a valid waqf, even as it opted to stay its implementation until the Centre and states frame a proper mechanism to verify compliance.

The bench led by Chief Justice of India Bhushan R Gavai rejected petitioners' arguments that the condition was arbitrary or discriminatory, holding instead that it had a rational nexus with preventing misuse of the waqf framework.

"Prima facie, we are of the view that such a provision cannot be said to be arbitrary or discriminatory," held the bench, underlining that even in 1923, ...