The requirement of the ruler's permission for reviving dead land

The questioner:
And between the days of Tashriq, is it required for the son of the Crown Prince if he comes, or multiple times?

The Shaykh:
The requirement of the ruler's permission for reviving dead land is the default ruling. However, if the ruler sees that there is a dispute among people, or that fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) arises among people regarding the seizure of lands, and that encroachments occur, then the ruler establishes a system for land grants and revival. Whoever exceeds this limit has the land taken from him, and whoever acts in accordance with it is confirmed in that. If the ruler sees that if people are left to revive whatever they wish and encroach, fighting or killing will occur, or fitnah will arise, then the ruler intervenes to settle the dispute by establishing a system for revival that regulates matters. Whoever adheres to it is confirmed, and whoever violates it is prevented. This is among the authorities of the ruler to avert fitnah. But if there is no fitnah, no dispute, and the lands are abundant and vast, and no fitnah or anything of the sort occurs, then whoever revives a land it is his, in accordance with the hadith. Yes.

The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh.

The Shaykh:
People nowadays have become greedy; they have become frenzied. They are not cutting out things and seizing them for benefit or investment, but rather they are seizing them to accumulate and to prevent people from them. Therefore, the intervention of the ruler and the establishment of a system for this matter is to regulate things. Yes.