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Please provide the Shariah's ruling on the undermentioned ways of raising funds for Madrasahs and Deeni projects: In emulation of the kuffar methodolo

Question

Please provide the Shariah's ruling on the undermentioned ways of raising funds for Madrasahs and Deeni projects: In emulation of the kuffar methodology, we are seeing more and more fundraising activities for Madrasahs and other Deeni projects. Women are leaving their homes without their Mahrams and taking their children to do face painting, buy cakes, participate in braais and play games, all under the authorisation and encouragement of molvis and sheikhs. At these fundraisers there are signed soccer balls to be purchased. These balls are signed by a kaafir who exposes his satr on a weekly basis in front of males and females in the environment of a stadium wherein music, free-mixing and swearing and other displays of zina take place. A child obtains this football as part of the fundraiser and this money is then used to uplift the facilities of the Madrasah, pay the bills or possibly even buy kitabs. Many of the women at these fundraisers are not even in full Hijaab. If women are not even supposed to leave the home for Fardh Salaah at the Musjid, on what basis are they attending fun and frollick fund-raisers? Is it true that these molvis and sheikhs do not have yaqeen that the fund-raising method adopted by Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) is the only way of achieving success? These new-fangled, immoral methods wherein there is tashabbuh of the kuffaar and females prostituting their identity, voice and their appearance in public surely cannot have any barakah. Please correct me if I am wrong regarding what I have said above. The conundrum is, if what I am saying is correct, why can the molvis and the sheikhs not see it? In fact I saw a bearded uncle with a topi on the way to Musjid for Salaah telling a child who had his face painted: "You look really nice?" I thought to myself is it permissible to change one's face in emulation of the kuffar in order to raise money for Madrasah? But if you tell these molvis anything as I have tried to do, it seems their pride becomes an obstacle. Without any Shar'i daleel, one is rebuked for raising these concerns and other lay people merely use the flimsy excuse of how can you question it when a molvi has authorised it? Do you know better than the Molvi? Please enlighten us about the Shar'i status of the fund-raising methodologies outlined above? (End of Lament).

Answer

There is no need for enlightenment for understanding the Shariah's ruling on the conglomeration of haraam which you have described. Molvis and sheikhs of this era, by far and large, are signs of Qiyaamah. It is true that they lack yaqeen in entirety in Allah's commands. They are wolves in sheep's skin, and devils in human form. In the words of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), "they are the worst of mankind under the canopy of the sky."

Every act in the fund-raising stunt and merrymaking function is haraam. The method is haraam and the funds acquired are haraam.

It is not permissible to utilize for Allah's Projects funds acquired in haraam ways. These types of fund-raising are on the increase. Muslims have completely lost their Deeni bearings, and the primary cause for all the evil and immorality plaguing the community is the shenanigans of the vile molvis and sheikhs who halaalize all these haraam activities. The very Imaan of these molvies and sheikhs is in question.

The crimes and sins which they legalize and halaalize are too conspicuous for recognition. Even an ignorant Muslim who has genuine Deeni concern understands the immorality of these fund-raising stunts, and the villainy of the highway robbers of Imaan – the satanic molvis and sheikhs who confuse the ignorant masses with their convoluted, haraam 'fatwas' of their nafs.

You have every right to question these molvis and sheikhs regarding their vile shenanigans. It is haraam to take them for 'gods'. Such was the attitude of Bani Israeel about whom the Qur'aan says:

"They take their ahbaar (molvis/sheikhs) and their

ruhbaan (buzrugs) as gods besides Allah, and (also) for Maseeh, the son of Maryam."

It is the right of every Muslim to offer naseehat to these miscreant molvis/ sheikhs. Amr Bil Ma'roof Nahyi Anil Munkar is an imperative obligation on all Muslims. What a person knows, should be propagated.

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