Fixing a Stone Bearing One’s Name in a Mosque Built with Donations

Question

Here in Maidan Jogal, Handwara sub-district, a Friday (jami‘) mosque is being built. One person wants to have the date of the laying of the foundation stone and his personal name engraved on a marble stone and to set it into the wall. However, the said mosque is being built with public donations. There is no doubt that the man who wants to have his name engraved on marble and set into the wall takes the greatest part in collecting donations and in the other work.

Answer

If the people of the mosque appoint this gentleman as mutawalli (trustee) and manager of the mosque, and the work of the mosque is carried out under his management and supervision, then an inscription may be written on this marble in such a way as: “The construction of this mosque was carried out under the management and supervision of so-and-so” — there is scope for this in…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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