Ruling on Taking Electricity from the Mosque
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: I am the imam of a mosque, and next to the mosque there is a house being built. The owner of the house asked me to let him take electricity from the mosque. The question is: What is the ruling on this action? And is it permissible for me to allow him to do so?
Answer:
If you are paying the meter fee, or the meter fee that you pay from your own money, there is nothing wrong with it. But if you pay it from the mosque’s funds, that is not permissible. This is an endowment (waqf), and it is not permissible to dispose of it except for the mosque.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: I am the imam of a mosque, and next to the mosque there is a house being built. The owner of the house asked me to let him take electricity from the mosque. The question is: What is the ruling on this action? And is it permissible for me to allow him to do so?
Answer:
If you are paying the meter fee, or the meter fee that you pay from your own money, there is nothing wrong with it. But if you pay it from the mosque’s funds, that is not permissible. This is an endowment (waqf), and it is not permissible to dispose of it except for the mosque.
Source
الاستفادة من كهرباء المسجد لغير المسجد — alfawzan.live
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