An Introduction to Financial Sacrifice — Page 135
135 "These are the ways in which people want to open the doors to that which is prohibited, so that they may do what they please. I have never said that it is permissible to receive interest money from the bank and to use it in case of desperate need. I only said that it was not prohibited to use it for the propagation of Islam and for other requirements of the faith. This will be so until money remains unavailable for the support of the faith and it continues to grow poorer, because nothing is unlawful for Allah. As for personal, national or commercial requirements, it is outright forbidden to use interest for these things. The justification I have put forward is that, for instance, it is unlawful according to the Shariah to burn another living being, but at the same time it is permissible for a Muslim to use a gun or a cannon if he is faced with war in this age, because the enemy too uses the same weapon. " 156 Similar is the case with lottery. Since the original amount is not recoverable in lottery, it is also a form of gambling and is therefore completely unlawful. It is not permissible to use money gained from lottery upon oneself or to pay it as Chanda. o 156 Al-Badr , February 6, 1908.