Pressing the Donor for Donations; Engaging in Trade Alongside Teaching

Question

Question: To harass donors in order to collect donations for some good cause — for example, a donor gives five or ten rupees, and the collectors, by flattery or by showing displeasure, compel him to give more, so he gives more under compulsion. Is it permissible to collect donations in this way? And is it permissible to spend such donations on good works or not?

Answer

(1) This way of collecting donations is wrong and prohibited, as Hazrat Thanawi ﵀ wrote that it is prohibited in the fourth volume of “Imdad al-Fatawa”; and the same is in “Fatawa Dar al-‘Ulum”. As for spending such donations on good works despite the impermissibility of this way of collecting them — just as you have quoted from Hazrat Mufti ‘Aziz al-Rahman ﵀ that it is valid,…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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