Endowment: Opening a Door Between Two Separate Endowed Properties

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Endowment: Opening a Door Between Two Separate Endowed Properties

English:

Question #2055:

There are two adjacent business properties that are held in trust, each of which has its own donor and endowment deed. In other words, they are two independent entities. Is it permissible for the tenant of both the properties to open up a door between them?

Answer #2055:

Making use of the property held in trust and having free hand in it, albeit with the interest of the other endowment property, should be according to the provisions laid down in the endowment deed and subject to the permission of the trustee. The tenant, therefore, has no right to go it alone by opening a door between the two properties to pass through because he happened to be the tenant of the next-door trust.

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