What is the ruling on bringing food to the mosques with the intention of charity?
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The questioner : What is the ruling on bringing food to the mosques with the intention of charity? Please guide us in light of this question.
The Shaykh : Bringing food to the mosques for the poor to eat is permissible, but not as a permanent practice. If it becomes a permanent practice, the mosque may be treated as a house or a headquarters. However, if it is for an urgent matter, such as breaking the fast in Ramadan, there is no harm in it, provided that the people of the mosque are not bothered and the mosque is not soiled. People’s practice today is in line with this. But making the mosque like a cafe or a restaurant is not permissible. Mosques were not built for this. There is a difference between temporary, urgent matters and continuous, permanent ones.
The questioner : May Allah reward you and bless you, O honorable Shaykh. The questioner Ibrahim Abu Hamid from Riyadh says.
The Shaykh : Bringing food to the mosques for the poor to eat is permissible, but not as a permanent practice. If it becomes a permanent practice, the mosque may be treated as a house or a headquarters. However, if it is for an urgent matter, such as breaking the fast in Ramadan, there is no harm in it, provided that the people of the mosque are not bothered and the mosque is not soiled. People’s practice today is in line with this. But making the mosque like a cafe or a restaurant is not permissible. Mosques were not built for this. There is a difference between temporary, urgent matters and continuous, permanent ones.
The questioner : May Allah reward you and bless you, O honorable Shaykh. The questioner Ibrahim Abu Hamid from Riyadh says.