Returning bricks taken on credit and used in a mosque

Question

A man had ordered eight thousand bricks on 6/4/77 to build his house. Some people of the mosque, after consulting together, took those eight thousand bricks on credit and used them in the mosque. Now the people of the village do not return the bricks and say: “You cannot take your bricks from the mosque,” although three years have passed since he gave the bricks. The man who gave the bricks is very poor and in distress, and he does not wish to give them of his own free will.

Answer

The people of the mosque bought those bricks from him and used them; so he no longer has the right to break down the mosque and take the bricks, but he certainly has the right to the price. If rupees were fixed as the price, he should be given rupees; if bricks themselves were settled as the price, i.e.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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