Repairing Mosques from the Income of a Graveyard

Question

In our small town there are many old graveyards, and the government has also given additional land adjoining them for the graveyard. If it is cultivated and its produce is spent on the dilapidated Friday mosque or on other good causes, is that permissible or not? If the mosques and so on are not repaired, there is a fear that they will collapse and fall into ruin. Most of the Muslims have left this place; only a very small number remain, and they cannot bear this expense.

Answer

Land endowed as waqf for a graveyard is to be used only for the purposes of the graveyard itself. If, however, the graveyard there has no need of it and sufficient space for its needs already exists, and there is a fear that, if this land is left empty, other people will seize it unlawfully and it will be difficult to end that seizure, so that the waqf itself would be lost,…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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