Prohibition of Excess in Clothing
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Question:
In your answer, Honorable Shaykh, you mentioned that the female Companions sometimes had only one garment. We may see the excess that some Muslim women have fallen into regarding clothing, wearing many garments, acquiring them, and perhaps using them only once. What is your guidance on this?
Answer:
Yes, this is an important issue. Muslim women should remember the conditions of the female Companions and the narrowness of their livelihood, where one woman had only one garment in which she would menstruate, become pure, and pray. Therefore, Muslim women today should remember this state, abandon excess, and hold themselves accountable. Abandon excess in clothing, for Allah the Exalted has prohibited excess and waste. He the Exalted said:[Al-Isra 17:26-27] And He the Exalted said: [Al-A'raf 7:31]. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Bulugh al-Maram 16:17
It is obligatory for Muslim women to fear Allah the Exalted, abandon excess and waste in clothing, be moderate in their clothing, and not engage in this kind of showing off, where a woman buys a garment at the highest price, wears it once, then discards it, and buys another garment, and so on. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you
In your answer, Honorable Shaykh, you mentioned that the female Companions sometimes had only one garment. We may see the excess that some Muslim women have fallen into regarding clothing, wearing many garments, acquiring them, and perhaps using them only once. What is your guidance on this?
Answer:
Yes, this is an important issue. Muslim women should remember the conditions of the female Companions and the narrowness of their livelihood, where one woman had only one garment in which she would menstruate, become pure, and pray. Therefore, Muslim women today should remember this state, abandon excess, and hold themselves accountable. Abandon excess in clothing, for Allah the Exalted has prohibited excess and waste. He the Exalted said:
and do not spend wastefully. (27) Indeed, the wasteful are brothers of the devils, and ever has Satan been to his Lord ungrateful.
وَلَا تُبَذِّرْ تَبْذِيرًا إِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرِينَ كَانُوا إِخْوَانَ الشَّيَاطِينِ وَكَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِرَبِّهِ كَفُورًاand eat and drink, but be not excessive. Indeed, He likes not those who commit excess.
وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا وَلَا تُسْرِفُوا إِنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُسْرِفِينَ(ﷺ) said: “Eat, drink, wear clothes and give sadaqah but with neither extravagance nor pride.”
صلى الله عليه وسلم كل واشرب والبس من غير سرف ولا مخيلة.It is obligatory for Muslim women to fear Allah the Exalted, abandon excess and waste in clothing, be moderate in their clothing, and not engage in this kind of showing off, where a woman buys a garment at the highest price, wears it once, then discards it, and buys another garment, and so on. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 12 من 27|أحكام المرأة في الصيام|أسئلة عامة عن الحيض وأحكامه|صالح الفوزان|فقه|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (3:25)
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