Endowment: Retrieving Donated Land When a Planned Health Project Is Not Built
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Endowment: Retrieving Donated Land When a Planned Health Project Is Not Built
English:
Question #2044:
A piece of land was donated to the Health Office to build a dispensary or a health centre on it. The officials have not started the project. Is it permissible for the donor to retrieve the land? And is handing the land over to the Office per se sufficient to realize the endowment, or should this hinge on the building itself?
Answer #2044:
Should the handing over of the land by the landlord to the Health Office have been done after endowing it in a shar‘ī manner so that it was at their disposal as the shar‘ī trustees, he has no right to revoke his decision and retrieve the land. Yet, if at least one of the two conditions was not realized, he has the might to get his land back.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Endowments