What Is Israf?
If that’s what you think, then that’s your limit! I’ll PM you my address – send over everything in excess of your T-shirt, and I’ll be sure to put it to good use! 😂😂 On a serious note, you’re not alone – everyone wants the best that they can get. But one must be mindful of their resources, present and future responsibilities, any dire needs of others, cultural norms, etc. and get what they believe is reasonable. There can’t be a set scale of extravagance – it will always vary in time and space.
I think this reply of Faisal sb is on spot. “The keyword is reasonable, and that will vary from person to person, product to product, situation to situation.” There is Islam and then Iman. So for every outer action (Islam), its only that individual who knows the level of Iman involved. Nobody can else can know on their behalf. So whether it becomes an issue of managing financial assets like you rightly mentioned above, the spirit has to be kept alive and that only and only depends upon your level of introspection, reflection etc. So what you asked about iPhone 12 and btw, this is your husn e zann to believe that nobody buys its ‘just because.’ You visit Pakistan every year, don’t you 😅 Whether they want to buy it because its beautiful, or they hold interest in it or they want to keep updated etc. They would or rather they should consider a looot of things before only selfish reasons. Family, relatives, surroundings and a couple of other factors that only they themselves would know better than anyone.