Paying Zakah for the Construction of Mosques
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Question:
This questioner, Abu Sultan, says: Is it permissible for us, Honorable Shaykh, to pay zakah for building mosques?
Answer:
No, zakah is not to be spent on projects, such as building mosques or anything else; because Allah has specified its recipients in eight categories, as in the noble verse[At-Tawbah 9:60] to the end of the verse. Therefore, it is not permissible to go beyond these categories that Allah the Exalted mentioned, so mosques or projects are not to be built with it.
This questioner, Abu Sultan, says: Is it permissible for us, Honorable Shaykh, to pay zakah for building mosques?
Answer:
No, zakah is not to be spent on projects, such as building mosques or anything else; because Allah has specified its recipients in eight categories, as in the noble verse
Zakah expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy
إِنَّمَا الصَّدَقَاتُ لِلْفُقَرَاءِ وَالْمَسَاكِينِ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/165 — archive.org (16:10)
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