The Ruling on Announcing Lost Items in the Mosque
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Question:
The questioner asks: Is it permissible to announce lost items in the mosque, such as hanging up keys, ID cards, or money?
Answer:
Announcing a lost item means raising one’s voice and saying, “Whoever found such-and-such, this is announcing a lost item.” Raising the voice is the announcement. However, placing it on the ground, in a location, or on a board is not an announcement of it; rather, it is displaying it so that its owner may come and take it, unless it was found in a mosque. As for taking money that is outside the mosque and placing it inside the mosque, that is not permissible. But if something is dropped in the mosque, there is no harm in placing it on a board or something else, or hanging it on a nail, so that its owner may see it. Yes.
The questioner asks: Is it permissible to announce lost items in the mosque, such as hanging up keys, ID cards, or money?
Answer:
Announcing a lost item means raising one’s voice and saying, “Whoever found such-and-such, this is announcing a lost item.” Raising the voice is the announcement. However, placing it on the ground, in a location, or on a board is not an announcement of it; rather, it is displaying it so that its owner may come and take it, unless it was found in a mosque. As for taking money that is outside the mosque and placing it inside the mosque, that is not permissible. But if something is dropped in the mosque, there is no harm in placing it on a board or something else, or hanging it on a nail, so that its owner may see it. Yes.
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