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Using
Zakaah funds to finish building a masjid
Question:
What is the ruling on using zakaah
monies to finish builidng a masjid
that is almost completed, and its construction may be halted
(due to lack of funding)?
Response:
What is well-known to the scholars, and it is the position
of the vast majority of them, so it can be considered like
ijmaa'
(a scholarly concensus) of the scholars of the early pious
predecessors, is that zakaah
is not to be used for building masaajid,
buying books, or the likes. It may only be distributed to
the eight kinds of recipients that are mentioned in the verse
in Soorah
at-Towbah (Aayah
60), and they are:
1) the fuqaraa. (those who are extremely poor);
2) the masaakeen (the poor and needy);
3) those who work in distributing it (the zakaah);
4) those whose hearts are inclinded towards Islaam;
5) freeing slaves;
6) paying debts;
7) in the way of Allaah; and
8) the traveler who is in need.
And the
phrase {in the way of Allaah} means jihaad
specifically.
This is
what is known to the people of knowledge, and the building
of masaajid
is not mentioned here, nor is the building of schools or roadways,
nor their likes.
And Allaah
is the One who grants success.
Shaykh
Ibn Baaz
Fataawa al-Mar.aMajmoo' Fataawaa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi'ah
- Volume 14, Page 294
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Translated by: Abul-'Abbaas Moosaa Richardson
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