The ruling on taking zakah for one who spends lavishly on food

The questioner : The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, some people took from your statement that if a salary is not sufficient for a person, that if he is, for example, a generous man who spends lavishly on his food, then it is permissible for him to take zakah. The other question says: Some people took from your statement that if a salary is not sufficient, for example, if he is a generous man who spends lavishly on his food, then it is permissible for him to take zakah. And another question says: A man bought a house for six hundred riyals, and he receives four thousand every month. Is it permissible for him to take zakah in order to pay off this debt?

The Shaykh : Yes, what is it?

The questioner : Six hundred thousand.

The Shaykh : Thousand. As for the first one, which is spending, a person who spends the spending of the rich while he is poor is considered a fool and is considered extravagant, and he is not given from the zakah. But if he spends the spending of the poor or the spending of his like, but his salary is not sufficient for him, then he is given from the zakah. Otherwise, if we let a person run free to whatever he desires of food and drink, nothing would be sufficient for him, even if it were a lot. So each person is looked at according to the extent of his need.