A cultivator taking four bighas and returning the rest of the landlord’s land

Question

Question: Nowadays there is a government law that if someone sows another person’s land for two years, he will be able to cultivate that land for his whole life, and the owner of the land has no right to snatch it from his hands. In this situation, if someone wants to sell that land, he cannot sell it, because the buyer says: “We would be buying for cultivation, and your tenant cultivator will not leave it, so I will not take it.

Answer

On the cultivator’s part this is injustice (zulm): taking four bighas of land, he returns the owner’s twelve bighas.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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