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Spending – How much and where to spend | Hubeali Skip to content Hubeali Menu Topics Quran Tafseer Books Urdu Books English Books Sermons School of Wilayat Search for: Search Button Home Articles Spending – How much and where to spend Details Sidebar Table of contents Where to Spend: Abhorrence for the ‘Buy now and Pay Later’ Approach: Over-Spending (Israf) What harms the body and destroys wealth is from Extravagance (Israf): Spending – How much and where to spend Download PDF We have to be moderate in our spending, neither too extravagant nor stingy, but moderate!

What is moderation? Imam -asws says: spend from those (savings) after deducting the expenses for the (whole) year. So one must first ensure that he/she has secured the expenses for the next twelve months and then one may spend (on others) from the excess. Then questions come to one’s mind where to spend and how to spend? We present some Ahadith below in this short article. محمد بن يعقوب: عن علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن رجل، عن أبي عبد الله (عليه السلام).

في قوله عز و جل: وَ يَسْئَلُونَكَ ما ذا يُنْفِقُونَ قُلِ الْعَفْوَ. قال: «العفو: الوسط». Muhammad Bin Yaqoub, from Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from a man, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws regarding the Words of the Mighty and Majestic: And they are asking you what they should be spending. Say: ‘The surplus’ [2:219] . He -asws said: ‘The surplus – the middle (neither too much nor too little)’.

[1] عن عبد الرحمن، قال: سألت أبا عبد الله (عليه السلام) عن قوله: وَ يَسْئَلُونَكَ ما ذا يُنْفِقُونَ قُلِ الْعَفْوَ. قال: «الَّذِينَ إِذا أَنْفَقُوا لَمْ يُسْرِفُوا وَ لَمْ يَقْتُرُوا وَ كانَ بَيْنَ ذلِكَ قَواماً – قال-: نزلت هذه بعد هذه، هي الوسط». تفسير العيّاشي From Abdul Rahman who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah -asws about His -azwj Words: And they are asking you what they should be spending. Say: ‘The surplus’ [2:219] .

He -asws said: ‘ And those, when they are spending are neither extravagant nor are they stingy, and they are And they who when they spend, are neither extravagant nor stingy, and they happen to be moderate between that [25:67] . He -asws said: ‘This was Revealed after this. It is the moderation’’. [2] عن يوسف، عن أبي عبد الله، أو أبي جعفر (عليهما السلام)، في قوله تعالى: وَ يَسْئَلُونَكَ ما ذا يُنْفِقُونَ قُلِ الْعَفْوَ. قال: «الكفاف».

From Yusuf, from Abu Abdullah -asws or Abu Ja’far -asws regarding the Words of the Exalted: And they are asking you what they should be spending.

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