Is it permissible to donate money to the mosque instead of feeding the poor?
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If the specifies a category for expiation, it is not permissible to spend it on anything else. The expiation for an oath is feeding ten needy persons, and it is not permissible to spend it on building mosques, paying off debt, or freeing a slave. Expiation, like , is only given to those who are deserving of it.
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