Is it permissible to give charity from money taken from people for reciting the Qur'an to them?
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Question:
Her wife is a sorceress. She recites the Qur'an to people and takes money, and she wants to spend this money on repairing the mosque's air conditioners. Is that permissible?
Answer:
This is forbidden money, and it is not permissible to spend it on the mosque or benefit from it. It is forbidden; it is not allowed. She has to repent to Allah the Exalted, make her work for the sake of Allah, and earn it through lawful means and spend from that. As for earning from what is forbidden and saying, "I am giving this as charity," that is not permissible. As for the poet who said, "One who feeds orphans from the liver of her camel, woe to you, do not commit adultery and do not give charity."
Her wife is a sorceress. She recites the Qur'an to people and takes money, and she wants to spend this money on repairing the mosque's air conditioners. Is that permissible?
Answer:
This is forbidden money, and it is not permissible to spend it on the mosque or benefit from it. It is forbidden; it is not allowed. She has to repent to Allah the Exalted, make her work for the sake of Allah, and earn it through lawful means and spend from that. As for earning from what is forbidden and saying, "I am giving this as charity," that is not permissible. As for the poet who said, "One who feeds orphans from the liver of her camel, woe to you, do not commit adultery and do not give charity."
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل تجوز الصدقة من المال المأخوذ من الناس لقراءة القرآن عليهم؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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