Is it permissible for the mosque imam to replace books from the mosque library with more beneficial books from used book sales centers?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: I am the imam of a mosque, and books are placed with me so that I can put them in the mosque library. The question is: Is it permissible for me to take some of these books that are not very beneficial and exchange them at used book sales centers for books that are more beneficial than them?

Answer:
Yes, if you are exchanging them for better ones, there is nothing wrong with it. There is nothing wrong with that if their benefit in the mosque is little, and if you sold them, they would fetch a high price, and you use that money to buy better books for the mosque. There is nothing wrong with that, because this falls under the category of doing what is best. This falls under the category of doing what is best. The books might be study books that are not read in the mosque, but if you sell them to students who need them, there is nothing wrong with that. Yes. Or they might be books on mathematics or geography, which have no value in the mosque, but if you sell them, you will find people buying them. You sell them and use the money to buy books that are more beneficial for the mosque.