The ruling on building a mosque or a house for a poor person from zakah
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Question:
This questioner, or rather this woman, Umm Muhammad from Riyadh, says: Is it permissible to build a mosque or a house for a poor person from zakah?
Answer:
As for building a house for a poor person from zakah, there is nothing wrong with it. As for a mosque, no; a mosque is built from donations, not from zakah. This is because zakah has specific categories of recipients defined in the noble verse, and one does not go beyond them. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
This questioner, or rather this woman, Umm Muhammad from Riyadh, says: Is it permissible to build a mosque or a house for a poor person from zakah?
Answer:
As for building a house for a poor person from zakah, there is nothing wrong with it. As for a mosque, no; a mosque is built from donations, not from zakah. This is because zakah has specific categories of recipients defined in the noble verse, and one does not go beyond them. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/224 — archive.org (13:05)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.