No One Has the Right to Abolish a Mosque’s Income

Question

The shops built on all four sides of the Jama Masjid of Delhi are built on the land of the Jama Masjid and are the property of the Jama Masjid itself. The mosque receives an income of approximately 72 thousand rupees a year from these shops. The government department D.D.A. wants to remove all these shops and make a garden and the like. If this happens, the mosque’s income will end forever. In view of these circumstances, the following matters are to be asked: (1)

Answer

No one has the right to abolish the income of a waqf pertaining to a mosque; such a wish is not fit to be fulfilled.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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