The Price of the Rajab Kunde Bowls Spent on the Mosque

Question

The Rajab kunde (earthenware bowls for a ritual food offering on 22 Rajab), which are filled with fried flatbreads, sweets, rice pudding and the like — people, thinking that they have become blessed (tabarruk), do not use them at home but take them to the mosque. May these kunde be sold and their price spent on some purpose of the mosque, such as repairs, cleaning, oil, floor covering and the like?

Answer

These kunde have no basis at all in the Shariʿa. If they are given with the intention of reward (thawab), then, in accordance with the intention of the giver, using them in the mosque is correct.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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