Mosques Are Not for Political Gatherings

Question

(1) Are these mosques for gatherings? Is it permissible to collect donations by spreading false propaganda, stating untrue things, through deceit and cunning? Are these mosques not for religious preaching (waʿz)? (2) What of the one who prevents preaching and dhikr in the mosque, and what of the one who permits and organizes political gatherings, and what is the ruling on him?

Answer

(1) Mosques are for prayer, recitation of the Qur’an, religious dhikr, preaching and tabligh. For political gatherings some other ground should be chosen, because nowadays political gatherings are generally not held within the limits of the Shariʿa, as a result of which the reverence of the mosque does not remain; the noise and clamour, too, is great and exceeds all limits. (2)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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