Permission [Permission in 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 Hujjat al-Islam Shaykh Muhammad-Rida `Ummani- may his graces last- has been authorized on my behalf to take charge of financial affairs, to collect religious funds and to spend the zakat and the expiation and injustices alms on religiously prescribed cases. Regarding the blessed share of the Imam (`a), he is also permitted to collect and sparingly use from it for his own sustenance, and to spend one-third of the surplus on the religiously prescribed cases in his locality. He is equally permitted to collect the share of the noble Sadat and pay one-half of it to the Sadat and to remit what remains from the two shares to me to spend for 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 meticulous in his worldly and afterworld affairs." May God's peace, mercy and blessings be upon him.

Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini