Is it allowed to talk in the mosque during non-prayer times? Is it prohibited to discuss worldly affairs in mosques?
A82. The mosque in Islam is a place of worship in the general sense of the word which actually encompass prayer, reciting the Quran, remembering Allah, Islamic education and training, asking and answering religious questions, inviting to the call of Allah and other innumeral good activities that cultivate piety and obedience to God Almighty. It is not allowed to use mosques as places of entertainment and recreation or for establishing the Islamic limits or for worldly talks void of good and obedience to God. Prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h. forbade selling and buying, trading, seeking lost things and the like in mosques. For these have their places in markets, entertainment and recreation centres. Allah says in the Quran chap. 24-v.36 “In houses which Allah has per o be raised to honour, for the celebration in them of His name. In them is the glorified in the mornings and in the evenings (again and again) by men whom neither trade nor sale can divert from the remembrance of Allah, nor from re
