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Can bore-well water sales fund Pesh-e-Imam & Muezzin salaries?

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In our masjid having a bore-well we think that to our masjid expenditure we make that water with filtered as drinking water. Can we sell that water and can we use that income for the salary of Pesh-e-Imam and Muezzin?

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

(Fatwa: 1064/1087/N=08/1435)

The water from the mosque bore-well may be sold after filtering. It is lawful. The income from it may be used for the salaries of Imam and Muezzin rather in all the needs of the mosque without any karahat.
قال في ردالمحتار (كتاب البيوع’ باب البيع الفاسد 7:258 ط مكتبة زكريا ديوبند) عن الرملي: أما إذا أخرجه منها – أي: من البئر- بالاحتيال كما فى السواني فلا شك في ملكه له ” اهـ وقال فى البحر الرائق (كتاب البيوع، باب البيع الفاسد 6:126، 127 ط مكتبة زكريا ديوبند): أما إذا أحرز الماء بالاستقاء في آنية والكلأ بقعطه جاز حينئذ بيعه لأنه ملكه بذلك اهـ

Allah knows Best!

Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband

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