Endowment: Trusteeship Transfer Due to Inability to Lead Prayer

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Endowment: Trusteeship Transfer Due to Inability to Lead Prayer

English:

Question #1991:

By way of endowment, a person designated a piece of land for a masjid to be built. He directed that its trusteeship should be his own offspring for generations to come. In their absence, he further instructed that the trustee should be the imam of the masjid who can hold the five daily prayers at the masjid. As a result, the imam was the trustee. But he had a stroke that prevented him from holding congregational prayers in the masjid. The board of imams appointed another imam to lead the prayers there. Should the trusteeship of the ill imam cease? Or should he maintain his office as trustee and appoint a replacement?

Answer #1991:

Assuming that he was trustee in his capacity as the imam of congregational daily prayers in the masjid, his trusteeship should cease by virtue of his incapacity to be imam of the masjid because of illness or for any other reason.

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