In the Name of Allāh, the Ever Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy
The Ruling on Communal Ifṭār in Mosques
Imām Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī (رحمه الله) said:
“Serving food in the mosque and making that a regular practice is not permissible, because mosques were not built for that purpose, as has come in the authentic ḥadīth.
However, if an emergency situation arises and a large group of people arrives who are poor and in need of food and drink, and it is not possible to take them to a house for one reason or another due to (reasons such as) the limited size of available houses at that time, or because they are in the desert or in the open land (with no shelter), then they may enter the mosque and eat due to this incidental circumstance.
But for the mosque to become like a restaurant, even if only in some months such as Ramaḍān, for example, as is done in some mosques, then this is something for which there was no practice. Indeed, mosques were not built for this. This was not the practice of the Salaf in the first place, and moreover it contradicts the principle of his statement (ﷺ): “Indeed, mosques were not built for this.”
Reference: Silsilat al-Hudā wa al-Nūr, cassette 1071.
Prepared by Abū Dilāra Naief al-ʿAydarūs.
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