Consuming the income of a pledged coconut tree

Question

Question: Zayd pledged a coconut tree and took five hundred rupees for a term of five years. After the term had passed, he paid the five hundred rupees. Meanwhile, during the intervening years, Bakr kept consuming the income — that is, the coconut yield — without paying anything. Is this proper or not?

Answer

Pledging a coconut tree and consuming its income is not permissible; this falls under the ruling of interest. [ar]وفي الأشباه: كل قرض جر نفعًا حرام[/ar] “And in al-Ashbah: every loan that draws a benefit is haram” (al-Durr al-Mukhtar on the margin of Radd al-Muhtar, p. 194, printed by Maktaba Rashidiyya al-Shami, Pakistan).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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