Locking the Mosque and Preventing the Funeral Prayer in It Because of Unpaid Donations

Question

In our village there are two parties: the one in the majority calls itself Hanafi, and the one in the minority is called Wahhabi. Recently the Hanafi party, accusing the Wahhabi party of not giving donations to the madrasa, boycotted the Wahhabi party. When a person from the minority party died, the majority party did not take part in the funeral.

Answer

Praying in the mosque is the right of every Muslim; it has no connection with not giving donations to the madrasa. Locking the mosque and preventing people from prayer, or not letting them pray in the mosque, is a very great wrong: [ar]وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّن مَّنَعَ مَسَـٰجِدَ ٱللَّهِ أَن يُذْكَرَ فِيهَا ٱسْمُهُۥ[/ar] “And who is more unjust than one who prevents the name of…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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