Paying the Costs of a Lawsuit Fought to Protect the Mosque from Mosque Funds

Question

There is a mosque; the land around it is endowed as waqf in the name of this mosque and is registered with the Sunni Central Waqf Board in Lucknow. On behalf of the Waqf Board this mosque has a registered mutawalli (trustee). Some people connected with this mosque wanted to build a madrasa on the land around the mosque; the mutawalli obstructed this, because through the building of the madrasa the mosque waqf suffered considerable financial loss in the income from the grass and hay of that land, and also from the…

Answer

There is no right to build a madrasa by force on the mosque’s waqf land. Although building a religious madrasa and spreading religious education is a matter of very great reward and recompense, an unrightful method must never be adopted; and to quarrel with the mutawalli for this, to have him removed from the trusteeship (tawliya)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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