An Electric Fan in the Mosque

Question

(1) What is the ruling on electric lighting and an electric fan in the mosque, and on the fan running during congregational prayer or at prayer times, given that the worshippers themselves had electricity and an electric fan installed in the mosque at their own expense, and the worshippers also pay its monthly cost from their own pockets, and not a single pie (the smallest coin) is spent from the income of the mutawalli (trustee)

Answer

Because an electric fan runs in the mosque in hot weather for the comfort and ease of the worshippers, no defect will occur in the prayer; the prayer will without any hesitation be valid, and arranging such benefit and comfort is not prohibited by the Shari‘a. Electric lighting also does not spoil the prayer. In the time of the early generations (salaf)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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