{"id":26844,"date":"2022-11-26T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T16:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=26844"},"modified":"2022-11-26T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T16:20:53","slug":"would-it-be-permissible-for-an-architect-to-draw-a-plan-for-a-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/would-it-be-permissible-for-an-architect-to-draw-a-plan-for-a-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Would It Be Permissible for an Architect To Draw a Plan for a Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 06348<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: Maulana Burhaan Rahman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Would it be permissible for an architect to draw a plan for a church?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Allah SWT mentions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u0648\u064e\u062a\u064e\u0639\u064e\u0627\u0648\u064e\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0628\u0650\u0631\u0651\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0651\u064e\u0642\u0652\u0648\u064e\u0649\u0670 \u06d6 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627 \u062a\u064e\u0639\u064e\u0627\u0648\u064e\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0625\u0650\u062b\u0652\u0645\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u0627\u0644\u0652\u0639\u064f\u062f\u0652\u0648\u064e\u0627\u0646\u0650 \u06da \u0648\u064e\u0627\u062a\u0651\u064e\u0642\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u064e \u06d6 \u0625\u0650\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u064e \u0634\u064e\u062f\u0650\u064a\u062f\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0639\u0650\u0642\u064e\u0627\u0628\u0650<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;Aid you not one another in sin and transgression, but help one another in Al-Birr and At-Taqwa (virtue, justice, and piety&#8221;). [Surah Ma\u2019idah verse 2]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Building a church or any other place of worship that is not based on Islam, is not permitted for a Muslim who believes in Allah and the Last Day. And also the religion practised in it is against the Islam that our beloved prophet (SAW) mentioned because doing so can be (even if one says indirectly) a way to support kufr &#8211; disbelief (worshipping trinity etc.) and manifest its works\/actions and symbols.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In such situations, one should avoid planning and drawing out plans and leave them to Christians\/non-Muslims etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only Allah knows best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Written by Maulana Burhaan Rahman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 06348 &nbsp; Answered by: Maulana Burhaan Rahman &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; Would it be permissible for an architect to draw a plan for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26856,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions\/26856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}