Is it permissible to take a mushaf from the mosque and then return it?
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The questioner : Is it permissible to take a mushaf from the mosque and then return it?
The Shaykh : It is not permissible to take a mushaf from the mosque and then return it, because the mushafs present in the mosques are endowments (waqf) for the general public; whoever enters the mosque benefits from them. If someone takes one, this implies that he has exclusive rights to it and has withheld it from others, which is forbidden (haram) and not lawful for him, even if he replaces it with another mushaf, it is still not lawful. Rather, the mushafs should remain in the mosques as they are, and whoever wishes to read from them should read from them while they are in the mosque itself.
The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh, and may He magnify your reward for what you have clarified for us and for the listening brothers...
The Shaykh : It is not permissible to take a mushaf from the mosque and then return it, because the mushafs present in the mosques are endowments (waqf) for the general public; whoever enters the mosque benefits from them. If someone takes one, this implies that he has exclusive rights to it and has withheld it from others, which is forbidden (haram) and not lawful for him, even if he replaces it with another mushaf, it is still not lawful. Rather, the mushafs should remain in the mosques as they are, and whoever wishes to read from them should read from them while they are in the mosque itself.
The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh, and may He magnify your reward for what you have clarified for us and for the listening brothers...