Endowment: Are Natural Resources on Endowed Land Part of the Endowment?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Endowment: Are Natural Resources on Endowed Land Part of the Endowment?

English:

Question #2060:

Some lands that are held in trust have watercourses that have stones and mineral deposits. Do these stones and mineral deposits form part of the endowment?

Answer #2060:

Big rivers and flood water courses, that border the lands held in trust or cut across them, are not part of the endowment, except those areas that have, by tradition, been deemed sanctuaries of the endowment. Such sanctuaries should be accorded the same treatment as the endowment itself. As for the stones and mineral deposits found in the streams that are held in trust, they should be treated as though they were part of the endowment.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Endowments