A mosque built by a fortune-teller and the ruling on its construction
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The questioner:
He says: May Allah preserve you, what is the ruling on a fortune-teller building a mosque, because he is the one who has the ability?
The Shaykh:
Mosques are not built except with good money. Even the polytheists of Quraysh, when they wanted to build the Ka'bah, gathered good money for it, but it was not enough to build it on the foundations of Ibrahim, so they shortened it and built what they could of it, and they were disbelievers who knew that nothing but good, lawful money is placed in mosques. Yes.
The presenter:
But his question, Shaykh, is: What do we do with this mosque now? The mosque that this fortune-teller built. He says: Do we demolish it? Do we boycott it?
The Shaykh:
I ask you to consult the scholars of your country, for they are more aware of the reality and will issue rulings for you on that.
He says: May Allah preserve you, what is the ruling on a fortune-teller building a mosque, because he is the one who has the ability?
The Shaykh:
Mosques are not built except with good money. Even the polytheists of Quraysh, when they wanted to build the Ka'bah, gathered good money for it, but it was not enough to build it on the foundations of Ibrahim, so they shortened it and built what they could of it, and they were disbelievers who knew that nothing but good, lawful money is placed in mosques. Yes.
The presenter:
But his question, Shaykh, is: What do we do with this mosque now? The mosque that this fortune-teller built. He says: Do we demolish it? Do we boycott it?
The Shaykh:
I ask you to consult the scholars of your country, for they are more aware of the reality and will issue rulings for you on that.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-061-دور طالب العلم في حماية مجتمعه من الانحرافات الفكرية|صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (51:16)
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