The ruling on Muslims purchasing churches that are for sale
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: In these times, praise be to Allah, a number of churches are being sold due to a lack of attendees, and some are converted into warehouses or the like. His question is: Is it better for Muslims not to buy them, because that might anger the disbelievers and cause a type of problems in the countries?
The Shaykh:
Likewise, what?
The questioner:
Because that might anger the disbelievers.
The Shaykh:
And their Shari'ah. Yes.
The questioner:
And cause a type of problems in the countries with Muslim minorities.
The Shaykh:
No, it is good that they buy them and convert them into warehouses or residences, or better than that, convert them into mosques or Islamic centers. That is better than them remaining as churches. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: In these times, praise be to Allah, a number of churches are being sold due to a lack of attendees, and some are converted into warehouses or the like. His question is: Is it better for Muslims not to buy them, because that might anger the disbelievers and cause a type of problems in the countries?
The Shaykh:
Likewise, what?
The questioner:
Because that might anger the disbelievers.
The Shaykh:
And their Shari'ah. Yes.
The questioner:
And cause a type of problems in the countries with Muslim minorities.
The Shaykh:
No, it is good that they buy them and convert them into warehouses or residences, or better than that, convert them into mosques or Islamic centers. That is better than them remaining as churches. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 15-05-1433هـ — alfawzan.live (54:24)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.