What is your opinion on borrowing to buy a car that is not needed, but only for showing off? Do the monthly installments fall under the debt that is warned against?
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The questioner : May Allah reward the honorableThe Shaykh : What is your opinion of those who borrow to buy a car with this debt, when they have no actual need for it, but rather it is to compete with others and chase after models? And do the monthly installments fall under the debt that is warned against? May Allah guide you.
The Shaykh : I also see that this is not of sound mind, to buy a car above your level to show off to others or to follow the models. Whenever a new model appears, you go buy it and sell the first car at a loss. This is undoubtedly an error, foolishness. If you need a car, buy according to your circumstances. The common people have a correct proverb: "Extend your leg according to the length of your blanket," because if you extend it beyond your blanket, the cold will strike you; you will be outside your blanket and the cold will strike you. So we say to our brothers: be gentle with yourselves. Do not buy cars except what you are compelled to, and do not buy cars except what is at your level. As for the monthly installments, they are undoubtedly part of the debt, because debt, as we said first and established, is everything that is established in the liability.
The Shaykh : I also see that this is not of sound mind, to buy a car above your level to show off to others or to follow the models. Whenever a new model appears, you go buy it and sell the first car at a loss. This is undoubtedly an error, foolishness. If you need a car, buy according to your circumstances. The common people have a correct proverb: "Extend your leg according to the length of your blanket," because if you extend it beyond your blanket, the cold will strike you; you will be outside your blanket and the cold will strike you. So we say to our brothers: be gentle with yourselves. Do not buy cars except what you are compelled to, and do not buy cars except what is at your level. As for the monthly installments, they are undoubtedly part of the debt, because debt, as we said first and established, is everything that is established in the liability.