Endowment: Changing the Conditions of an Endowment and Limits of Modification

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Endowment: Changing the Conditions of an Endowment and Limits of Modification

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Question #2059:

Is it permissible to change the provisions laid down in an endowment deed? And should it be so, what are the boundaries for such a change? Can passage of a long period of time be a determining factor in abiding by the provisions of the endowment?

Answer #2059:

It is not permissible to flout the shar‘ī provisions laid down by the endower in the endowment deed unless it is impossible or unbearably difficult to observe those provisions. Length of time has no part to play in the process.

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