Stealing from the charity boxes in the mosque and preventing the young men from doing so
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner from America says: Some of the young men here come to the mosque and sometimes pray in it, but we strongly suspect that they sometimes steal from the charity boxes that are in the mosque. What is your advice? And is it permissible for us to prevent them from entering the mosque?
Answer:
Do not prevent them from entering the mosque, but prevent the money from being placed in the mosque. Take it away; do not leave it in the mosque. This is a temptation for them and for others, and it is also a form of wasting wealth. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner from America says: Some of the young men here come to the mosque and sometimes pray in it, but we strongly suspect that they sometimes steal from the charity boxes that are in the mosque. What is your advice? And is it permissible for us to prevent them from entering the mosque?
Answer:
Do not prevent them from entering the mosque, but prevent the money from being placed in the mosque. Take it away; do not leave it in the mosque. This is a temptation for them and for others, and it is also a form of wasting wealth. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب تعاهد الماقين وغيرهما من غضون الوجه — islamhouse.com (1:11:17)
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