Is it permissible to buy liquor stores and dance venues in order to use them as mosques and places of worship?
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Yes, it is permissible to buy brothels and use them as mosques, because that transforms them into a good deed. For evil is not an intrinsic quality of a place, but rather it results from what it was used for. So, if it is used for good, its evil departs, and it becomes a place of good.
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