The ruling on using gold and silver vessels and those gilded with gold
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The questioner:
And it is not the Shaykh. With you are silver items, and the rich use gold, and the vessels are not to be used by a poor person only, nor for eating and drinking.
The Shaykh:
All of this is forbidden. Vessels made of gold used as ornaments, or of silver used as ornaments, or chandeliers gilded with gold, all of this is forbidden. It is not permissible because this is forbidden extravagance. Also, this resembles using them for drinking and eating, as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sunan Ibn Majah 3415Sahih (Darussalam). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Do not eat Bulugh al-Maram 16.
So it is not permissible for a Muslim to make gold or gilded items into vessels, chandeliers, door handles, car keys, or the like. We have even heard that some of them, some of them, put something of gold in the bathrooms. They gild the chairs one sits on to relieve oneself. This is forbidden, it is not permissible. Or the car, he makes its keys and handles and door handles gilded with gold. This is forbidden, it is not permissible. It is not permissible for Muslims to do this.
Another questioner:
The Shaykh Malik.
The Shaykh:
No, as for diamonds and precious gems and the like, they are not measured by this; because the prohibition was only mentioned regarding gold and silver.
Another questioner:
A louder shout.
The Shaykh:
Yes, indeed, in eating or in anything else, except that a Muslim should not exaggerate in extravagance. But the prohibition does not forbid this; this is specific to gold and silver. Yes.
And it is not the Shaykh. With you are silver items, and the rich use gold, and the vessels are not to be used by a poor person only, nor for eating and drinking.
The Shaykh:
All of this is forbidden. Vessels made of gold used as ornaments, or of silver used as ornaments, or chandeliers gilded with gold, all of this is forbidden. It is not permissible because this is forbidden extravagance. Also, this resembles using them for drinking and eating, as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
The one who drinks
الذي يشربit is as if he is swallowing Hell-fire into his belly
بآنية الذهب والفضة إنما يجرجر في بطنه نار جهنمin silver or gold utensils, and do not eat in plates of such metals, for such things are for them (the disbelievers) in this worldly life and for you in the Hereafter
في آنية الذهب والفضة، ولا تشربوا في صحافهما، فإنها لهم في الدنيا، ولكم في الآخرةSo it is not permissible for a Muslim to make gold or gilded items into vessels, chandeliers, door handles, car keys, or the like. We have even heard that some of them, some of them, put something of gold in the bathrooms. They gild the chairs one sits on to relieve oneself. This is forbidden, it is not permissible. Or the car, he makes its keys and handles and door handles gilded with gold. This is forbidden, it is not permissible. It is not permissible for Muslims to do this.
Another questioner:
The Shaykh Malik.
The Shaykh:
No, as for diamonds and precious gems and the like, they are not measured by this; because the prohibition was only mentioned regarding gold and silver.
Another questioner:
A louder shout.
The Shaykh:
Yes, indeed, in eating or in anything else, except that a Muslim should not exaggerate in extravagance. But the prohibition does not forbid this; this is specific to gold and silver. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 19 من 89|شرح العدة في شرح العمدة|البيوع|باب القرض وغيره|صالح الفوزان|الفقه|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (31:25)
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