Endowment: Endowment Validity of Officially Allocated Public Lands

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Endowment: Endowment Validity of Officially Allocated Public Lands

English:

Question #2007:

If the officials of the Oil Company and Civil Land Organisation allocate some lands under their control for building masjids/seminaries and recite the endowment deed and deliver the lands for the same purpose, Are the lands considered as endowed properties to which endowment rules are applied?

Answer #2007:

If the lands are among public property of the government and are allotted to certain usage, one cannot endow them. However, if they are dead lands without any owner but under the control of the Oil Company or Civil Land Organisation, there is no problem in changing them into usable lands by building majids/seminaries or the like with the permission of the authorities.

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