بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
“Truly, the religion with Allaah is Islam” [Aal ‘Imraan 3:19]
It is not permissible to donate to a temple or church or any place in which anyone or anything other than Allah is worshiped, because that is helping in evil and in the greatest of evils. In these temples shirk and idolatry are practiced.
Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Help you one another in Al‑Birr and At‑Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allaah. Verily, Allaah is Severe in punishment” [al-Maa’idah 5:2]
Building a temple or church is haram according to consensus and the same applies to renovating it.
it is not at all permissible for a Muslim to leave a will stating that a church or any other non-Muslim place of worship should be built with his money.
1.Hanafi madhhab
If a Muslim leaves a will to a synagogue or church, it is invalid, because it is a sin.
2.Maaliki madhhab
No man should hire himself out to do something that Allah has forbidden. Maalik said: He should not rent out or sell his house to someone who will use it as a church, and he should not rent out his mount to someone who will ride it to the church.
3.Shaafa’i madhhab
If he bequeaths one third of his wealth or part of it to build a church for the Christians to pray in or to rent it out be used as a church or for a church to be built in it or for land to be bought with it to be a charitable trust for the church and to support the church, and so on, then the bequest is invalid.
4.Hanbali madhhab
A bequest to commit sin or do something haram is not valid, whether the one who leaves the bequest is a Muslim or a dhimmi. If he leaves a bequest for a church or Zoroastrian temple to be built or renovated or to spend on such places, it is invalid. This was the view of al-Shaafa’i.
Building a place of worship for non-Muslims -- whether this is a church or anything else – implies love of kufr and spreading it, and fighting Tawheed, and encouraging disbelief in the Lord of the Worlds, and this may lead the one who does that to kufr.
Imam Abu’l-Hasan al-Ash’ari (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
Approving of kufr is kufr, and building a church in which Allah is disbelieved is kufr, because it is approving of kufr.
It is not permissible for a Muslim who believes in Allaah and the Last Day to build a church or a place of worship that is not based on Islam with which Allaah sent Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), because that is one of the greatest means of helping in kufr and making its symbols manifest, and Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Help you one another in Al‑Birr and At‑Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression” [al-Maa'idah 5:2]
We ask Allah, may He be exalted, to make Islam and the Muslims prevail and to bring the Muslims back to their religion.
And Allah knows best.
“Truly, the religion with Allaah is Islam” [Aal ‘Imraan 3:19]
It is not permissible to donate to a temple or church or any place in which anyone or anything other than Allah is worshiped, because that is helping in evil and in the greatest of evils. In these temples shirk and idolatry are practiced.
Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Help you one another in Al‑Birr and At‑Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allaah. Verily, Allaah is Severe in punishment” [al-Maa’idah 5:2]
Building a temple or church is haram according to consensus and the same applies to renovating it.
it is not at all permissible for a Muslim to leave a will stating that a church or any other non-Muslim place of worship should be built with his money.
1.Hanafi madhhab
If a Muslim leaves a will to a synagogue or church, it is invalid, because it is a sin.
2.Maaliki madhhab
No man should hire himself out to do something that Allah has forbidden. Maalik said: He should not rent out or sell his house to someone who will use it as a church, and he should not rent out his mount to someone who will ride it to the church.
3.Shaafa’i madhhab
If he bequeaths one third of his wealth or part of it to build a church for the Christians to pray in or to rent it out be used as a church or for a church to be built in it or for land to be bought with it to be a charitable trust for the church and to support the church, and so on, then the bequest is invalid.
4.Hanbali madhhab
A bequest to commit sin or do something haram is not valid, whether the one who leaves the bequest is a Muslim or a dhimmi. If he leaves a bequest for a church or Zoroastrian temple to be built or renovated or to spend on such places, it is invalid. This was the view of al-Shaafa’i.
Building a place of worship for non-Muslims -- whether this is a church or anything else – implies love of kufr and spreading it, and fighting Tawheed, and encouraging disbelief in the Lord of the Worlds, and this may lead the one who does that to kufr.
Imam Abu’l-Hasan al-Ash’ari (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
Approving of kufr is kufr, and building a church in which Allah is disbelieved is kufr, because it is approving of kufr.
It is not permissible for a Muslim who believes in Allaah and the Last Day to build a church or a place of worship that is not based on Islam with which Allaah sent Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), because that is one of the greatest means of helping in kufr and making its symbols manifest, and Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Help you one another in Al‑Birr and At‑Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression” [al-Maa'idah 5:2]
We ask Allah, may He be exalted, to make Islam and the Muslims prevail and to bring the Muslims back to their religion.
And Allah knows best.
