Using riba-based wealth to repair roads

Question: 60007

Is it permissible for me to use interest based on riba to pave a road in the quarter where I live, because the state does not repair the roads in the old quarters of cities?.

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

Putting
money in the bank in return for interest is a major sin, and it is not
permissible to put money in the bank in order to get interest to use for
charitable projects, let alone benefit from it oneself.

If a Muslim
has put his money in a riba-based bank, then Allaah guides him and he
repents from riba, then he has to get rid of the interest by donating it to
charitable causes, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“O you
who believe! Be afraid of Allaah and give up what remains (due to you) from
Ribaa (from now onward) if you are (really) believers.

279. And
if you do not do it, then take a notice of war from Allaah and His Messenger
but if you repent, you shall have your capital sums. Deal not unjustly (by
asking more than your capital sums), and you shall not be dealt with
unjustly (by receiving less than your capital sums)”

[al-Baqarah 2:278, 279]

It is not
permissible for him to benefit from it, either by paying taxes with it or
doing anything else that will bring him benefit.

Based on
this, if this road belongs only to him, because it leads to his house, it is
not permissible to repair it using this money, because it brings benefit to
him. But if it is a public road which will benefit him and others, then
there is nothing wrong with using this money to repair it.

And Allaah
knows best.

See also the
answers to question no. 292,
2370,
20876,
23346,
22392,
49677 and
30798.

And Allaah knows
best.

Source:

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