We all know that extravagance is forbidden, including extravagance in clothing, but what is the ruling if a woman fears extravagance in her clothing and does not want
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The questioner : You say, O honorable Shaykh, we all know that extravagance is forbidden, including extravagance in clothing, but what is the ruling if a woman fears extravagance in her clothing and does not want to have a large number of clothes, but her husband asks her to do so, buys her fabric, asks her to have it tailored, and likes to see her wearing new clothes? Please guide us, O honorable Shaykh, and clarify for us what is the limit of extravagance in clothing if the husband wants his wife to adorn herself? May Allah reward you?
The Shaykh : The limit of extravagance in everything is exceeding the limit, meaning that a person exceeds the limit that he should be upon, whether that is in clothing or in eating and drinking, as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-A'raf 7:31] As for the clothes that your husband brings to you, tell him that you do not need them. If he insists on bringing them, then look at the most beautiful of them and adorn yourself with them for your husband, because some husbands have a strong desire for their wives to adorn themselves for them.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And if there are many clothes, save them, for perhaps a day will come when you need these clothes, or one of the poor people needs them, and you give them to him as charity. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you. This listener, who used the initials M A A for his name, says.
The Shaykh : The limit of extravagance in everything is exceeding the limit, meaning that a person exceeds the limit that he should be upon, whether that is in clothing or in eating and drinking, as Allah the Exalted said:
and eat and drink, but be not excessive. Indeed, He likes not those who commit excess.
وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا وَلا تُسْرِفُوا إِنَّهُ لا يُحِبُّ الْمُسْرِفِينَThe questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And if there are many clothes, save them, for perhaps a day will come when you need these clothes, or one of the poor people needs them, and you give them to him as charity. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you. This listener, who used the initials M A A for his name, says.