Discarded Cement Was Refined, Sold and Used for the Mosque Floor

Question

The boarding conductor (?) of the O.N.G.C. company, on the order of a senior officer, removed cement stored in the company’s warehouse and threw it away, but left it within the company’s area. Then a labourer refined it and packed it in bags, and it was bought by paying a price of 25٪ (so in the print) rupees per bag. As was convenient, at 9 o’clock at night it was carted, the cement was placed in a suitable spot, and with it the lower layer of the mosque floor was prepared; the work was done using about 9 (?)

Answer

If it had been declared useless and thrown away, so that whoever wished might pick it up, then let them now have no doubt about the prayer.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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