Buying and Selling: Ruling on Guardian Receiving and Investing a Minor’s Share of Blood Money

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Buying and Selling: Ruling on Guardian Receiving and Investing a Minor’s Share of Blood Money

English:

Question #1501:

Is it obligatory on the guardian of the minor child to receive its share of the blood money? And is it compulsory on him to invest the child’s share from the blood money for the benefit of the child in, say, a savings bank account?

Answer #1501:

It is obligatory on the guardian to demand and take blood money from the perpetrator, should the crime entail blood money. On receipt of such money, the guardian has to safeguard it until the child becomes ritually mature. However, it is not incumbent on him to invest the money. Yet, he may do so provided that the interest of the child is taken into account.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Buying and Selling