Allocation and Utilization of the Spoils (Anfal) in Iran (Case Study: Transference of Mines)

New questions have been raised after the Act of Enforcing General Principles of Article 44 of the Iranian Constitution and transference of mines to the private sector. The article collects data about the Spoils (Anfal) by a qualitative, analytical and descriptive method through searching in previous sources and resources and then reviews the topic on the basis of principles and rules of Islamic theology and jurisprudence and the Ijtihad method. The Spoils (Anfal) include things that humans have no roles in creating them. As the Spoils are among the pre-Islamic prescripts, and the legislator of Islam has accepted the customs of reasonable persons, their utilization is also based on reasonable methods. The Islamic ruling must, of course, design strategies through organizing Islamic policies on definition and utilization of the Spoils. There is very little consistency between positive laws and Imamite jurisprudence upon utilization of mines.