Permission [Permission in the financial and religious law affairs]

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

" Praise is to Allah, the Lord of the worlds; may peace and salutations be upon Muhammad and his pure progeny, and may God's curse be upon all their enemies."

It is hereby confirmed that His Excellency Sayyid al-A`lam wa Thiqat al-Islam Haj Sayyid Muhammad `Ali Hashimi- may he always succeed- has been authorized on my behalf to take charge of the financial affairs, to collect the religious funds and spend the likes of zakat, and the expiation and injustices alms of the servants of God on the religiously prescribed cases. Regarding the two blessed shares, he is also permitted to collect and sparingly use from them for his expenditures. In case of surplus, he is equally permitted to we one-third of the blessed share of the Imam (`a) and half of the share of the Sadat in his locality and for the noble Sadat respectively, and to remit the remainders to me to spend on promotion of Islam.

"And I advise him- may God Almighty assist him- as we have been advised by our predecessors to adhere to piety, to evade carnal desires and to be cautious in his worldly and afterworld affairs." May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon him and upon our faithful brothers.

Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini

Jumadi al-OUla 12,1407 AH