Ruling on spending zakah on building mosques and the like
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Question:
The listener is Sufyan Ahmad from Cairo, al-Arish, in a letter containing two questions. In his first question, he says: We are building a mosque with our own efforts, and we collect zakah on wealth and spend it on this mosque. Is this permissible?
Answer:
The correct view is that zakah is not spent on mosques. The correct view according to the majority of scholars is that zakah is not distributed to mosques, but rather to the eight categories specified by Allah in His saying (peace and blessings be upon him) : meaning: the zakahs [At-Tawbah: 60]. These are the recipients of zakah; mosques and schools are not among them. No, in the path of Allah means jihad.
It is obligatory for the believing man and woman to fear Allah in the distribution of zakah, and not to distribute it except to those who are entitled to it. Not to mosques, not to the rich, not to your children, and not to your parents. But you give it to the poor among your poor brothers, or your maternal uncles, or your paternal uncles, or your poor paternal cousins, or other poor Muslim people. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
The listener is Sufyan Ahmad from Cairo, al-Arish, in a letter containing two questions. In his first question, he says: We are building a mosque with our own efforts, and we collect zakah on wealth and spend it on this mosque. Is this permissible?
Answer:
The correct view is that zakah is not spent on mosques. The correct view according to the majority of scholars is that zakah is not distributed to mosques, but rather to the eight categories specified by Allah in His saying (peace and blessings be upon him) :
Alms are only
إِنَّمَا الصَّدَقَاتُZakah expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect [zakah] and for bringing hearts together [for Islam] and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allah and for the [stranded] traveler
إِنَّمَا الصَّدَقَاتُ لِلْفُقَرَاءِ وَالْمَسَاكِينِ وَالْعَامِلِينَ عَلَيْهَا وَالْمُؤَلَّفَةِ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَفِي الرِّقَابِ وَالْغَارِمِينَ وَفِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَاِبْنِ السَّبِيلِIt is obligatory for the believing man and woman to fear Allah in the distribution of zakah, and not to distribute it except to those who are entitled to it. Not to mosques, not to the rich, not to your children, and not to your parents. But you give it to the poor among your poor brothers, or your maternal uncles, or your paternal uncles, or your poor paternal cousins, or other poor Muslim people. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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