Buying and Selling: Ruling on Guardian’s Justice and Action Against Corrupt Guardians

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Buying and Selling: Ruling on Guardian’s Justice and Action Against Corrupt Guardians

English:

Question #1491:

Has the guardian to be a just person? And if the guardian of the child is corrupt so much so that it is feared that the child would be corrupted or his property would be damaged, what should the authorised religious authority do?

Answer #1491:

Justice is not a condition when it comes to the guardianship of the father or the paternal grandfather over the child. However, if the authorised religious authority is convinced even through circumstantial evidence that the child’s father or paternal grandfather would introduce harm to the child’s interest, he should dismiss the guardian and ban him from meddling with their property.

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