What is the ruling on gathering the villagers for a small monetary fee from each person to maintain family ties and call people to Allah?

Question:
The questioner says: We are a group of young men who agreed to gather the people of our village in a wedding hall on the second day of the festival in exchange for a nominal amount of two hundred riyals from each person, to maintain family ties, deepen mutual acquaintance, and call the villagers to Allah the Exalted. We arranged a program for this that includes a speech by one of the students of knowledge, competitions, prizes, and interviews. What is your opinion on what we agreed upon? Please clarify it for us. May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
This is a good deed, and there is nothing wrong with it, but arranging it in a specific place or on a specific day is what is to be avoided. If you hold it on different days, not specifying that it is the day of the festival or the second day of the festival, and you hold it on any day that is suitable and compatible with people’s attendance, without specifying a particular day, and likewise without specifying a particular place—such as holding it in one of the large mosques, or one day in such-and-such a mosque, and the second time in another mosque, and so on—this is good. The important thing is that you do not specify it by time or place, but rather change the time and change the place, and continue with this work that contains preaching, reminding, and calling to Allah the Exalted, and it will be for the best.