Endowment: Can the Endowment Department Remove a Named Trustee?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Endowment: Can the Endowment Department Remove a Named Trustee?

English:

Question #1990:

A person set aside property by way of a public endowment. According to the endowment deed, he appointed himself a trustee of the endowment and after his death his eldest son. In it, he drew up a list of duties and responsibilities to facilitate the administration of the endowment. Has the Department of Endowments the right to deprive the trustee of all his responsibilities or part thereof?

Answer #1990:

As long as the trustee appointed by the endower is doing his job in accordance with the provisions of endowment deed, administrating of endowment rests with him as the endower stipulated in the deed and as per Islamic law; it is not valid to alter his remit laid down by the endower within the endowment formula.

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