Giving to the mosque, particularly its construction and maintenance, is therefore a spiritual practice.
Instead, he said, American Muslims were "giving to the mosques, the schools, the Islamic centers" in their communities.
In a letter, also dated 22 July, HSBC gave Ummah the same reason for closing its account that it had given to the Finsbury Park Mosque - that "provision of banking services now falls outside our risk appetite".
The restaurant's space was given to the community for a mosque.
A small amount of money and a kola nut is given to the bride's family at the mosque, after that the sum handed over can be any where from less than $100 to tens of thousands.
But traditionally, the bulk of this money is given to the poor outside temples and mosques - charity that's motivated by religious beliefs.
The BBC's Alex Duval Smith in Bamako says people do not have to pay to see the mark but are leaving money in a bucket, which the Traore family say they will give to the local mosque.
This was just the first of several small museums, often newly and attractively installed in handsome buildings, that proved worth an attentive if quick visit for the context and substance they gave to the often austere mosques and fortresses.
Nine months – and at least four allegedly foiled plots – since the government first announced its $1.6m deradicalisation program, the first grants have been given to mosques, sporting groups and community organisations.
Women from the same mosque have raised a petition against the use of Salafi speakers and the subjugation of women contained in their teachings, and given it to the mosque committee. But Muhammed Bashir Ahmed, chairman of the mosque committee, denied extremist teachings were coming from his mosque.
