Collecting Donations for the Mosque inside the Mosque

Question

Question: Talking about worldly matters inside the mosque is prohibited. To clarify what worldly talk is: the donations collected inside the mosque in connection with the khatm sharif (collective completion of the Qur’an) used to be written down name by name. One gentleman objected that worldly nonsense should not take place. Another person said that in all mosques donations are collected for the respected imam and given to him.

Answer

Worldly talk is, for example, talk of buying and selling, talk of lawsuits, talk of fields and orchards: all of this is worldly talk. Collecting donations in the mosque for the construction of the mosque or for the imam’s salary is not prohibited, provided there is no noise and commotion, as generally happens nowadays: people taunt one another, shame one another, and quarrel…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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