Important advice on abandoning extravagance in food and drink and other matters
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good. Listener one thousand and one says: Honorable Shaykh, what advice do you offer to families to abandon extravagance in some foods, as they are lax in being extravagant with food? We ask you for advice for these people, may you be rewarded? Allah the Exalted says:[Al-A'raf 7:31]
Answer:
the extravagant. And He the Exalted and Majestic says:[Al-Isra 17:29]. And He the Exalted and Majestic says: "And do not waste in wastefulness, for the wasteful are brothers of the devils." So it is not permissible to be extravagant or wasteful.
A person spends according to need on himself and on those whose maintenance is obligatory upon him, according to need. If he holds a feast for one of the occasions, let it be according to need, without extravagance, wastefulness, or ostentation. If he had saved this money in which he was extravagant and wasted, or given it in charity to the needy, if he had kept it, he would have benefited from it in the future. If he had given it in charity to the needy, he would have found his reward and recompense with Allah the Exalted and Majestic,[Al-Muzzammil 73:20]. But if he is extravagant and ostentatious in it, he is on the path of Satan.
And he is a sinner in that, and he is among the brothers of the devils, as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Isra 17:27].
May Allah reward you with good. Listener one thousand and one says: Honorable Shaykh, what advice do you offer to families to abandon extravagance in some foods, as they are lax in being extravagant with food? We ask you for advice for these people, may you be rewarded? Allah the Exalted says:
and eat and drink, but be not excessive. Indeed, He likes not
وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا وَلَا تُسْرِفُوا إِنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّAnswer:
the extravagant. And He the Exalted and Majestic says:
And do not make your hand [as] chained to your neck or extend it completely
وَلَا تَجْعَلْ يَدَكَ مَغْلُولَةً إِلَىٰ عُنُقِكَ وَلَا تَبْسُطْهَا كُلَّ الْبَسْطِA person spends according to need on himself and on those whose maintenance is obligatory upon him, according to need. If he holds a feast for one of the occasions, let it be according to need, without extravagance, wastefulness, or ostentation. If he had saved this money in which he was extravagant and wasted, or given it in charity to the needy, if he had kept it, he would have benefited from it in the future. If he had given it in charity to the needy, he would have found his reward and recompense with Allah the Exalted and Majestic,
And whatever good you put forward for yourselves - you will find it with Allah. It is better and greater in reward
وَمَا تُقَدِّمُوا لِأَنفُسِكُم مِّنْ خَيْرٍ تَجِدُوهُ عِندَ اللَّهِ هُوَ خَيْرًا وَأَعْظَمَ أَجْرًاAnd he is a sinner in that, and he is among the brothers of the devils, as Allah the Exalted said:
the wasteful are brothers of the devils
الْمُبَذِّرِينَ كَانُوا إِخْوَانَ الشَّيَاطِينِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6551- نصيحة مهمة بترك الإسراف في المطعم والمشرب وغيرهما - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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