Hyderabad, April 9 -- As the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, comes into force, it kicks in a new sense of a concerted move to drastically change the character and alter the status of Waqf property and wrest complete control over the Waqf property.

Waqf is continuing charity, with land donated in the name of God for charitable purposes, Sadqa-e-Jaaria. Sadqa is Charity and Jaaria is continuing.

Once land is made out for charitable purposes, and that, too, in the name of God, it can neither be alienated, nor its status altered by way of sale, gift or transfer. But the new Waqf Act facilitates conversion of Waqf land into private or Government property. The Modi Government enacted new Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, comes as a huge surprise, as it...