Is it permissible for me to use zakat funds to build a mosque?
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Zakat is not to be spent on the mosque for its renovation, furnishing, or similar purposes, because it is specifically allocated to eight categories, as detailed in the verse from Surat At-Tawbah, and the mosque is not among them.
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