The ruling on spending from zakah on mosques
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Question:
The questioner, whose name is indicated by the initials (A. A), asks: Is it permissible to spend on mosques, specifically for their repair, laying good carpets, and the like, from zakah?
Answer:
Mosques are not among the categories of zakah expenditure, neither their construction nor their carpeting. The categories of zakah expenditure were clarified by Allah, Glorified and Exalted, in His saying: [Surat al-Tawbah: 60].
Therefore, mosques are not among the categories of zakah expenditure, neither their construction, nor their carpeting, nor anything else.[At-Tawbah 9:60] means: jihad. So zakah is not spent on mosques, neither in their renovation nor in their carpeting. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you, O Shaykh.
The questioner, whose name is indicated by the initials (A. A), asks: Is it permissible to spend on mosques, specifically for their repair, laying good carpets, and the like, from zakah?
Answer:
Mosques are not among the categories of zakah expenditure, neither their construction nor their carpeting. The categories of zakah expenditure were clarified by Allah, Glorified and Exalted, in His saying:
Zakah 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 السَّبِيلِTherefore, mosques are not among the categories of zakah expenditure, neither their construction, nor their carpeting, nor anything else.
for the cause of Allah
وفي سبيل اللهThe presenter: May Allah reward you, O Shaykh.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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