Opening a space in a rest area for prayer: Is it considered a waqf?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person sets aside a space in his rest area, in one part of it, and opens it for people to pray in, is this considered a waqf (endowment)?
Answer:
Yes, if he opens the door and gives people permission to pray in it, it becomes a mosque and becomes a waqf. Yes. But if he does not open it, and only he and those who accompany him pray in it, without opening it to people from outside the place, then it is a prayer place, not a mosque. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person sets aside a space in his rest area, in one part of it, and opens it for people to pray in, is this considered a waqf (endowment)?
Answer:
Yes, if he opens the door and gives people permission to pray in it, it becomes a mosque and becomes a waqf. Yes. But if he does not open it, and only he and those who accompany him pray in it, without opening it to people from outside the place, then it is a prayer place, not a mosque. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 07-07-1439هـ — alfawzan.live (47:01)
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