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According to Sharia law, Catalan local councils cannot finance or help to build mosques.

The Qur'an states that it is the Muslims who must finance the mosques. If they do not, it is not a true mosque.

Protest against the cession of a plot of land for a mosque in Banyoles

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According to Islamic tradition, The construction and maintenance of mosques is a duty of the believers., who get involved as an act of faith and as a form of Continuous charity (continuous charity). This idea is rooted in the Qur'an, in the Sunnah (the words and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad) and in the jurisprudence (Islamic jurisprudence).

In practice, this means that performances such as lthe cession of municipal land in Banyoles for the construction of a mosque, or the financing by the Barcelona City Council of works in Islamic places of worship, are not legally valid under Islamic law. Even if these measures are framed within Spanish legislation on religious freedom and equal treatment, Sharia does not recognise the legitimacy of a mosque built or renovated with funds from non-Muslim authorities., especially if they come from a State that does not apply Islamic law. acceptable for prayer.

Therefore, from the standpoint of classical Islamic jurisprudence, these mosques do not meet the requirements to be considered sacred spaces.

The infidels are contaminating the mosque.

In the Qur'an, Sura 9, verse 18 clearly states that “Only those who believe in God and in the Day of Judgement, who pray, give alms and fear no one but God, build and maintain the mosques of God.”. This statement explicitly restricts the legitimacy of building mosques to Muslim believers, and excludes any external actor, especially if they are non-Muslim. The famous exegete and jurist Al-Qurtubī (13th century) commented on this verse, saying that only Muslims “have the legal and moral right to manage Islamic places of worship”, and that the help of infidels could “contaminate the sacred act”.

This principle is reinforced by verse 107 of the same surah, which condemns a mosque built with malicious intent by hypocrites, stating that “God testifies that they are liars” and that such a mosque is not worthy of prayer. The classical jurists, such as Imam Mālik and Imam al-Shāfiʿī, dThey derive from these texts that the intention (niyyah) and the lawful origin of the funds are indispensable legal conditions for the validity of a mosque..

This doctrine, shared by the four Sunni schools, it calls into question the consistency of municipal practices of institutional aidand respect for one's own Islamic religious regulations. Accepting public funds from a secular state or a non-Islamic administration contradicts the very texts that govern the spiritual life of the Muslim community, and turns the mosque into a legally and religiously irregular structure.

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