Collecting Donations for One Mosque and Spending Them on Another

Question

The questioner states: here, in the neighbourhood mosque, the Friday prayer is held. The inner part is insufficient for the worshippers, and in the courtyard the worshippers suffer from the heat, although a tent canopy has now been arranged. Before this, several people of the neighbourhood together collected some money so that a canopy could be built outside. However, the mutawalli (trustee)

Answer

If there is no benefit in building the canopy, then, with the permission and consent of the people who donated for building the canopy, this money may be spent on repairing the well, a tap and the like, or given to another mosque. The same is the ruling for the materials — bricks, sand and so on: it is correct to spend them in accordance with those people’s permission.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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