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Resolution No.(91): “Building a Floor over the Mosque as Classrooms for Teaching the Quran“

Date Added : 02-11-2015

 

Resolution No.(91) by the Board of Iftaa`, Research and Islamic Studies: 

“Building a Floor over the Mosque as Classrooms for Teaching the Quran“

Date: 6/6/1426 AH, corresponding to 13/7/2005 AD.

 

 

What is the ruling of Sharia as regards building classrooms over a mosque`s main place of prayer (Mosala)?

Answer: All success is due to Allah, The Lord of The Worlds.

After reviewing the opinions of the Muslim scholars and their evidences in this regard, the Board decided that it is impermissible to build classrooms over the mosque for teaching the Noble Quran due to the following reasons: It is permissible to build floors over  the mosque for prayer only, what is beneath the mosque and above it take its rules, adding a floor for a purpose other than offering prayer makes the mosque lose its status as a mosque, and some people may take this as a pretext for adding floors over mosques, so mosques can`t be considered as such any more. It was stated in the book entitled [Rud Al-Mohtaar Ala Aldurr Al-Mokhtar/Hashyat Ibn Abdeen/Part (1), Page (371)]: “If a mosque has been built and someone wanted to build over it i.e. he wanted to build a place of residence for the Imam, then that is forbidden.“ And Allah Knows Best.

 

Iftaa` Board
Chairman of the Iftaa` Board, Chief Justice, Izzaldeen Al-Tamimi
Dr. Ahmad Hilayel
Dr. AbdulMajeed Al-Salaheen
Dr. Yousef Ghyzaan
Dr. Wasif Al-Bakhri
Dr. Abdukareem Al-Khasawneh
Sheikh Sae`id Hijjawi
Sheikh Nae`im Mujahid

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What is the best manner in distributing the meat of the Aqeeqah?

It is better to divide all of it as cooked meat amongst the poor and the needy. Dividing it into three portions is a Sunnah, but it is permissible to keep all of it provided that a portion, even a small one, is given to the poor and needy (one kilo for example).

Does the deceased hear the supplications or recitations of those visiting his/her grave? And does making constant supplications for the deceased who didn`t adhere to performing the prescribed prayers ameliorate his/her affliction?

Praise be to Allah the Lord of the Worlds.

In principle, the dead hear the living since it has been rigorously authenticated that the Prophet (PBUH) ordered the bodies of the idolaters slain in the Battle of Badr to be buried. He then approached them and called them one by one and said: "Have you found what your Lord promised to be true for we have found what our Lord promised us to be true." Umar asked him: "O messenger of God! Why do you speak to lifeless bodies?" The Prophet (PBUH) replied: "By the One Who has sent me with the truth! You do not hear my words better than they do except that they cannot respond." [Agreed upon].

However, not all the deceased are in the same situation because Allah The Almighty Knows: "Before them is a Partition till the Day they are raised up." [Al-Mu`minun/100]. Moreover, supplication reaches the deceased. And Allah Knows Best..

 

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