Title: Can you please let us know, if money from Sadaqa and Zakaat can be loaned for Masjid construction? Loan does not mean permanent donation, loan here means for a specific time period only. Then the money will be returned back to the Zakaat handling person.

Question: As salaamu 'alaikum, Can you please let us know, if money from Sadaqa and Zakaat can be loaned for Masjid construction? Loan does not mean permanent donation, loan here means for a specific time period only. Then the money will be returned back to the Zakaat handling person. Was salaamu 'alaikum, Jaffar Shaikh

Answer ID: 25174Posted on: Sep 1, 2020

Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

(Fatwa: 1365/1075/D=1431)

It is not lawful to give or take the amount of Zakah or sadqah on loan neither for the mosque nor for other jobs but it is wajib on the wakil of zakah that they should spend it on their masraf (poor and needy) and should be absolved of the responsibility.