Lending the Mosque’s Money on Interest

Question

If, from the donations for a mosque, an orphanage or an Arabic madrasa, or from the income of shops and property, a sum remains in the treasury after paying the salaries of the imam, the madrasa rector and the teacher, and some honest person takes one thousand rupees from this income in a lump sum for trade and keeps paying a fixed sum annually — for example two hundred rupees — whether he makes a profit or a loss, and whenever the sum is demanded he will also repay it in a lump sum: is it valid according to the…

Answer

The sum of two hundred rupees a year that will be obtained as growth and income is interest, and a transaction involving interest is haram.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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