Building a mosque on madrasa land

Question

Ordinary Muslims, by collecting donations to build a madrasa, bought a plot of land, and the madrasa building was built on that land, and teaching has been going on in it for 15 years. The name of the madrasa is “Madrasa Islamiyya”, and it is with the Awqaf Board (Waqf Board); donations are still being collected from Muslims in the name of the madrasa.

Answer

Since the donations were collected for the madrasa and the donors gave them with that intention, and with that money land was bought and made waqf for the madrasa, and then the madrasa was built, and religious teaching is going on in it, it is now by no means permissible to demolish it to build a mosque or to buy it for a mosque; indeed, even spending the madrasa’s income on…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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