{"id":2051,"date":"2019-09-21T11:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T09:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2019-09-21T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T09:59:41","slug":"donating-towards-the-construction-of-a-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"Donating towards the construction of a church"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Donating towards the construction of a church<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong>My non-Muslim colleague is doing a fund raising for a construction of a church. Is it okay for me to donate towards the fundraising of the construction of the church? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> It is not permissible for a Muslim to donate towards the building or construction of a church as it is assisting in evil. Allah Ta\u2019ala mentions:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd do not assist each other in sin and oppression\u201d <strong>(Maaidah)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The donations should rather be used to build or construct a Musjid or in an avenue that will be a means of benefit to Deen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section the_content has_content\">\n<div class=\"section_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donating towards the construction of a church Q. My non-Muslim colleague is doing a fund raising for a construction of a church. Is it okay for<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqidah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}