would you be able to give some examples on spending wealth well how can we define the
limit to spend on yourself the essence of Zurich in wealth of abstaining from the dunya in wealth
is to only take that which you need and everyone is according to themselves it's hard to give an
example because what I give for me may not be true for you for example if I earn a certain number of
a certain amount of Durham's what is you know suffices me with the size family I have might
not be what suffices you you may need more than me or less than me according to your circumstances
so it's hard to give an example that is true for everybody what you really need to ask yourself is
is this spending that I am doing enough to suffice my need or is it more than I need and if it's more
than I need do I really want is it wasteful or is it not I think there are three levels either
it meets your need or either it's more than you need but it's not wasteful or it's wasteful the
wasteful is Haram the first is recommended and halal and the middle one is something that you
should aim to reduce where you can and the more you reduce it the better you will be in Islam so
we said there's an example which is clearly halal and clearly Haram the clearly halal is when you
have the minimum that you need the basic food the basic accommodation the basic transport that you
need simply to get you from A to B without any excess spending this is clearly halal and what
is clearly Haram is wasting money you know you see a guy has thirty cars if he has it for investment
because he's saving them to invest to make money on them then I don't think this is waste but he
has thirty cars because you know like I have an abundance of money and you know what else will I
buy so I just buy cos red color yellow color green color of the same car and I don't drive them all
I just park them on my driveway so that everyone sees how much money I have this is wasteful then
in the middle there is someone who buys more than they need but it's not wasteful so such as someone
who buys an expensive car let's say somebody buys a Range Rover somebody buys a Range Rover
is a Range Rover necessary probably not unless you have a certain job that you particularly
need one I don't think it's probably necessary however it's not wasteful it's a good car that
will probably last longer than other cars and has a level of comfort that other cars don't have and
you know it's it's from a reliable brand and so on so it's not I don't think it's necessarily
wasteful however the more you can reduce these instances where you buy more and more and more
without wasting the better you can be so the more you reduce these kind of instances so if you for
example say look I bought a nice house in a nice area in Dubai is this wasteful no because the
house has value you can inshallah sell it you can live in it it will provide for you if it's a big
house and you have family there it's not wasteful inshallah but the more you can suffice with less
the better Muslim you will be and the closer you will be to allah azzawajal so I think you have to
see the wealth in these three categories that which is clearly allowed which is the minimum
you need to survive that which is clearly Haram which is waste and that which is in the middle
which is in the middle it's it's in the middle and that is something which is not wasteful
but it's more than you actually need you know you didn't need to spend a hundred and fifty thousand
dirhams or two hundred thousand there how much you could have spent thirty thousand dirhams it's
not necessarily wasteful but it's more than you need and that is permissible for you but the more
you can train yourself to just gradually reduce that the better it will be bismillahi Tabarrok