Mosque Expenses: From Personal Funds or From Donations

Question

(1) I live in Bulandshahr district; in one of its neighbourhoods there is the "Shishe-wali" ("Glass") mosque, which the respected Shaykh Khairati built through his own arrangement on land inherited from his forefathers, with his own personal money, and throughout his life he consistently carried out all the administration, management, repairs and so on of this mosque with his own personal money. The respected Shaykh Khairati never put anyone's donation money into this mosque.

Answer

Since the descendants of the founder of the mosque meet the needs of the mosque from their own personal money and keep the management in proper order, and there is no complaint of any kind, other people have no right to interfere, take over the management, collect donations and put up buildings and so on there; this step of theirs is wrong, nor do they have the right to any…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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