He was asked:

About an endowment dedicated to the needs and upkeep of the Sanctuary, with what remains thereafter to be spent on charitable causes, alms, and the poor and needy residing in the Sanctuary: may any of its funds be spent on the caretakers and attendants who perform the necessary duties?

He answered:

Yes. Those who perform duties needed by the mosque—cleaning, guarding, laying out furnishings, providing lighting, opening and closing the doors, and similar tasks—serve its needs and are entitled to payment from the endowment dedicated to those needs.

He—may Allah have mercy on him—was asked:

About a man who purchased a house whose purchase documents specified only three boundaries, while the fourth boundary adjoined a house held as an endowment. The purchaser then demolished and rebuilt his house. He subsequently opened a window in the endowment property to admit light into a storeroom, and installed a water-supply facility beside the wall, adjoining the endowment property. This new installation damages the endowment’s wall. He also constructed a projection over the perimeter of the endowment’s courtyard. If, then, he builds along the perimeter of the courtyard and rests roof timbers on the wall which