Spending Usurious Funds on Public Interests
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Q36: Is it permissible to spend usurious funds on public interests, such as repairing roads and building mosques, and the like?
A36: It is permissible to spend usurious funds on public interests, such as repairing roads and the like, but it is not permissible to spend them on building mosques; because it is forbidden and corrupt earnings, and Allah is Pure and accepts nothing but what is pure. Usurious interest is forbidden, and whoever deals in usury must hasten to repent and dispose of the profits in his possession by spending them on what benefits the Muslims, as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:279],
and among such things are constructing roads, building schools, and giving to the poor.
A36: It is permissible to spend usurious funds on public interests, such as repairing roads and the like, but it is not permissible to spend them on building mosques; because it is forbidden and corrupt earnings, and Allah is Pure and accepts nothing but what is pure. Usurious interest is forbidden, and whoever deals in usury must hasten to repent and dispose of the profits in his possession by spending them on what benefits the Muslims, as Allah the Exalted said:
But if you repent, you may have your principal - [thus] you do no wrong, nor are you wronged.
وَإِنْ تُبْتُمْ فَلَكُمْ رُءُوسُ أَمْوَالِكُمْ لا تَظْلِمُونَ وَلا تُظْلَمُونَand among such things are constructing roads, building schools, and giving to the poor.
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