Building a Mosque on Land Given for a Mosque

Question

(1) Bargi Nagar is a place where there are about one hundred Muslims, and the place is such that, by order of the authorities, people will not remain there, because a stone dam is being prepared at this place to hold back water; within five years this will come to an end. Those who live there are mostly government employees, whose number keeps decreasing and increasing; the total number of all of them, from the labour class up to the officers, is 100.

Answer

If people of sound opinion and prudence consider building a mosque there beneficial, they may build it; may Allah Most Pure arrange for it to remain populated and flourishing. (2) If there is permission from the authorities to spend cement and the like on this work, then it is permissible.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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