Rule on Picking Truffles and Exploiting them

Abstract

The research deals with the ruling on picking truffles and using them. It aims to collect the different provisions of the issue of picking truffles, spreading awareness in the society about what they are allowed to use from public and private lands, as well as maximizing the sanctity of others' possessions and warning against plundering them.

Research Methodology: I have followed the inductive approach to the issues of truffle and the provisos of picking them.

The most important results reached through this research are:

• The jurists agree that what grows and appears in permissible public places, that are not owned, is shared between people, including truffles before their possession, their plucking, and their picking.
• The jurists differed in the ruling on picking truffles from owned lands, on three opinions, the most correct of which is: if the owner of the land intends to grow truffles, by watering it or leaving the cultivation of the land for it to grow in it, it is his private property, and no one else shares it with him without his permission.
• The jurists agree that it is permissible to garner the fruits of trees that grow by themselves, within the boundaries of the Haram, including truffles.

I recommend concerned authorities to educate the community and make it aware of what is permissible for them from truffles that are on public lands, and what is not permissible for them from them. The same applies to requesting owners of private properties to surround their lands, otherwise they have no right to prevent people from entering them and picking truffles from them.