Dismissal of a mosque trustee who does not manage the mosque

Question

There is a mosque that has three mutawallis. The annual income of the mosque is one thousand rupees. The respected trustees intend to consume all the money of the income and not to provide the mosque even with water pitchers and ablution ewers. Also: (2) There is some land belonging to the mosque itself; these same people have seized it by force and even had a house built on it. What is the ruling on all this?

Answer

Removing such trustees from the trusteeship is wajib. A committee of a few honest, Shari‘a-following, influential persons should be formed, the present trustees dismissed, and the Waqf Board informed that from such-and-such a date the management of the mosque and its property has been handed over to such-and-such a committee; the mosque’s property and income should be taken…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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