Using One Mosque’s Money for Another Mosque

Question

In a village there are two mosques: one is rich, the other poor. In the rich mosque there is, for years, no necessary work, not even construction; by contrast, in the other, poor mosque even the plastering remains to be done, and the floor is also incomplete. May the rich mosque’s money be put into the other, poor mosque?

Answer

If that money is from donations, then spending it on the poor mosque with the opinion and permission of those who gave the donations is correct according to the Shariʿa.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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