Video - Ensuring Public Services Through Foundations and Charity - The Ottoman Legacy

But if these public services, which are from charitable causes such as educational services, health services and social services, are not spent or misused by the ruling administrators despite the command of Islam, how will these services work? The answer to this question was found by Nureddin Eş-Şehid and Saladin Eyyubi, one of the valuable statesmen of the Ayyubids, based on Islamic jurists. Accordingly, in order not to be diverted from its purpose by later governments, the revenues of the land varieties called haraci land belonging to the state treasury may be allocated to hospitals, madrasas and similar charitable services, which are the reason for the continuation and survival of the state, under the name of the foundation. Thanks to these foundation allocations, which can only be made by the head of state or other officials with his permission, these public services will continue without being interrupted and unaffected by changes in power.Here, the Ottoman sultans have also declared the newly conquered lands, in particular, miri land. Whether