Spending One Mosque’s Money on Another Mosque

Question

In a village there is a Friday (jamiʿ) mosque, and its income exceeds the mosque’s expenses. On which purposes may it be spent? Several hundred thousand rupees of this mosque are lying idle in the bank. The request is: may some poor person be helped from this money or not? Or may another mosque be helped or not? Or should it be spent only on this same mosque, or may it be spent on other good works? Kindly grant an answer to the question with a reference to a book.

Answer

It is necessary to look at the waqf deed of the waqf from which this income derives, to see on which works the waqif permitted it to be spent. It is not permissible to spend the income of a waqf made specifically for one mosque on another mosque. However, for keeping the mosque populated (with worshippers)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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