Does the large amount of furniture brought to weddings fall under the category of extravagance?
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The questioner : Similarly, for example, in today's weddings, in completing the marriage, many people bring what they call... meaning a great deal of furniture. So, the Muslim should strive to bring a small amount of furniture in order to break this custom and call for it. At the same time, one might rule that this is extravagance, because things are brought that may have no benefit, such as... what they bring, or the dining room they bring. This is a formal thing, even between the poor and the rich. Can this be described as extravagance?
The Shaykh : What is this?
The questioner : It is described as extravagance.
The Shaykh : Especially from the poor.
The questioner: Those who have this custom, the bride is furnished with three rooms: a bedroom, a guest room, and a dining room... things like that.
The Shaykh : Well, where does the poor man get all this cost from?
The questioner : Unfortunately, my Shaykh, he borrows and manages how he manages. Subhan Allah, he brings it.
The questioner: If he has to borrow, he has to bring it, and the girl's family, not the groom's family, the girl's family are the ones obligated to do this.
The Shaykh : Also.
The questioner: Ah, not the groom's family.
The questioner : He borrows, he brings it, the bank, meaning it is necessary.
The questioner: I once was riding.
The Shaykh : ...apples.
The questioner: Once we were riding with a man driving a car - I will bring you sugar for it - or he told us his story that he has, I don't know, five daughters.
The Shaykh : But...
The questioner: Five daughters, and he educated them: one is an engineer, one is a doctor, one I don't know what? So he set a condition for whoever comes to propose to them: I cannot furnish them; it is enough that I educated them. So you, you two, be yourselves, furnish yourselves.
The Shaykh: Good.
The questioner : And the groom agreed to this.
The Shaykh : Where is this?
The questioner : In Egypt.
The Shaykh: All right.
The Shaykh : What is this?
The questioner : It is described as extravagance.
The Shaykh : Especially from the poor.
The questioner: Those who have this custom, the bride is furnished with three rooms: a bedroom, a guest room, and a dining room... things like that.
The Shaykh : Well, where does the poor man get all this cost from?
The questioner : Unfortunately, my Shaykh, he borrows and manages how he manages. Subhan Allah, he brings it.
The questioner: If he has to borrow, he has to bring it, and the girl's family, not the groom's family, the girl's family are the ones obligated to do this.
The Shaykh : Also.
The questioner: Ah, not the groom's family.
The questioner : He borrows, he brings it, the bank, meaning it is necessary.
The questioner: I once was riding.
The Shaykh : ...apples.
The questioner: Once we were riding with a man driving a car - I will bring you sugar for it - or he told us his story that he has, I don't know, five daughters.
The Shaykh : But...
The questioner: Five daughters, and he educated them: one is an engineer, one is a doctor, one I don't know what? So he set a condition for whoever comes to propose to them: I cannot furnish them; it is enough that I educated them. So you, you two, be yourselves, furnish yourselves.
The Shaykh: Good.
The questioner : And the groom agreed to this.
The Shaykh : Where is this?
The questioner : In Egypt.
The Shaykh: All right.
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