I do agree to your financial analysis of mosque accounts. Who is to be blamed us. We spend millions on professional education of our children and pay few rupees for eternal education. It is because our community decided to make those as imam masjid who were not fit to lead the prayers. In Islam there is no concept of clergy. Prayers are to be led by the notables of area. It is mandatory that the person who leads the prayer is Aqil, Baligh, Fair, truthful, etc. He does not have to be Hafiz e Quran to lead prayers. He has to be intelligent, knowledgeable, honest, truthful and prominent personality of the area. A person who is known to be Adil and should not be Fasiq It is due to this reason Holy Prophet and Khulafa led the prayers themselves. Practically, prayers should be lead by President, Prime Minister, Governor, Chief Minsiter, etc etc etc or for that matter Nazim of the area or Commissioner (provided they are eligible , but they aren't). But we have left the most important thing of our life to those who know nothing about it. Just imagine that a fatwa was given about loud speaker, when it first came to sub-continent, that it is voice of devil. When the first man landed on moon it was declared Kufr by molvis.
Second reason our religion is in shambles because every street has its mosque and sometimes more than one. To the extent that mosques have been built on usurped lands. Just imagine a religious place of gather of a religion which declares prayers to be invalid if performed on usurped land. Islam is stringent to the extent that you cannot offer prayers in a house, where you are a guest, without permission of host. And trumpeters of that religion build mosques on usurped land. If you happen to be in Karachi look at master plan of city and visit the land allocated for parks. See what has happened with a number of those.
I fully agree that mosques should be maintained and people of community should contribute to do that. If you cannot maintain the mosque exactly in the way you maintain your house and of the status which you enjoy then dont build those mosque and let those handle these affairs who can handle that. If we do not respect our religion no one else would do that. Look at Mandirs, Churches, Synagogues, etc. How those are maintained. If you have visited UAE (well I may have many reservations about them
@Khafee) but fact is that they have given respect to the mosque. Mosques match their skyline status and that is how it should be.