Is it permissible to mix personal funds with mosque funds and to borrow from them for personal purposes with the intention of repayment, knowing that accurate and honest financial reports are submitted after separating the two types of funds, and does this negate the reward of the mosque’s caretaker, and how can he atone for his sin?
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The fatwa affirms that the agent for a mosque construction endowment is a trustee over its funds, and it is impermissible for him to borrow from them or take anything for himself. This is because his role is executive, not a working one. The fatwa relies on the statements of Ibn Rajab that a person entrusted with distributing charity money should not partake of it. It also states that a supervisor borrowing from the endowment's revenue is like borrowing a trust, which is not permissible. The fatwa obliges the agent to repent and return what he took from the endowment's funds.
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