Where to use interest money that has come into one’s hands

Question

Question: (1) Is it permissible to use interest money for a household toilet, a public toilet or a mosque toilet? (2) Is it permissible to give interest money to a poor unbeliever (kafir)? (3) Is it correct to give interest money to a poor person without the intention of reward (thawab)? (4) Is it permissible to build a road, build a poor person’s house or install lighting on a road with interest money? (5) Is it permissible to buy clothes with interest money for a poor unbeliever or a poor Muslim? (6)

Answer

(1) Taking and giving interest is haram. First of all, it should be returned to the very person from whom it was taken; if interest money has somehow come from a bank or the like, let him give it to the poor without the intention of reward; it should not be put into a mosque, a toilet and the like. (2) Let him give it to a poor Muslim. (3)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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