❖ Question
Is it permissible to place flowers in mosques for the purpose of fragrance?
❖ Answer
Yes, it is permissible. Flowers are a form of fragrance, and placing them in the mosque, or applying perfumes (ʿiṭr), is valid and commendable.
There are explicit Hadiths encouraging the perfuming of mosques, although this Sunnah has unfortunately become almost forgotten in present-day India.
Innā lillāh!
(Maulana Muhammad Yunus, Teacher at Madrasa Mian Sahib, Delhi – Ahl-e-Hadith Gazette, Delhi, Vol. 9, Issue 9)
