Selling or Renting Out an Abandoned Mosque

Question

In some areas of the state of Jammu and Kashmir the mosques are abandoned and no Muslim lives there. The walls of these mosques have collapsed and become heaps of rubble, and the bricks, timber and planks of the mosques are going to waste, or the non-Muslims living in these areas carry them off. In such a situation, may the Council of Islamic Awqaf of Jammu (Majlis-i Awqaf-i Islamiyya, the body administering endowments)

Answer

If there is no way to bring these mosques back into use and the materials are going to waste, then these materials should be used in other mosques, and the collapsed mosques should be surrounded with a boundary wall and enclosed in such a way that they are protected.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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