Making a Well in the Courtyard of a Mosque

Question

In the Jami‘ mosque here, although a government water pipe has been installed which is sufficient to supply water, in summer the water from the pipe becomes scanty, and to meet the need there is also a well. In these circumstances the mosque people wanted to dig another well, in which they would install an electric pump, so that there would be plenty of water; and it was decided to dig this well in the courtyard of the mosque at the expense of the mosque’s waqf property, whereas the waqif of the mosque land has…

Answer

To put a place that has been made a mosque and given in waqf for performing prayer permanently to some other use is contrary to the purpose of the waqif. Such a place always remains a mosque, and respecting it is obligatory. If a well is made in that place, the place will be permanently tied up in a use other than prayer, whereas it was dedicated to prayer.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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