Renting Mosque Land for a Madrasa

Question

There is a strange custom here: at weddings people give money to the mosque, but if you mention the madrasa, then 2 rupees at the most. At present we have 300 rupees of the mosque’s money, and the mosque has no need of it either. So I am thinking of asking Hazrat Wala: right at the edge of the mosque’s courtyard there is a small piece of land; it too lies within the mosque’s boundary wall but outside the courtyard. For example, the plan is this: (A diagram in the print.)

Answer

If that money was given for the interests (masalih) of the mosque, then, after consulting those who gave the money and the worshippers, have a classroom built in that empty space, which will be the property of the mosque, and then take it on rent for the madrasa, the madrasa paying the rent to the mosque regularly, so that the mosque benefits and the children also have the…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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