Endowment: Successor Trustee’s Authority

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Endowment: Successor Trustee’s Authority

English:

Question #2001:

Who can be called an appointed trustee by the donor and who cannot? And should the donor appoint a trustee for the endowment and give him the authority to appoint a successor, can the successor be called a fully-fledged trustee?

Answer #2001:

The appointed trustee is the person appointed by the donor when uttering the endowment formula. If the donor made a provision, at that time, authorising the trustee to appoint the next trustee; there is no objection to his appointing a successor after him. The person who is appointed by the original trustee is deemed as though the donor appointed him.

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