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Sometimes the wife says the husband is misally and stingy and he doesn't spend

He earns a lot, but he doesn't spend or he doesn't allow me to spend and sometimes

The the husband says that the wife is very extravagant. She spends a lot and that's the reason why I'm holding back

So what is the path? What does Islam teach us?

A beautiful verse in the Quran and it's mentioned more than once actually with different wording

So one of them is in Suratul Falkhan Allah describes the true believers and he says

Those whom when they spend their neither extravagant nor are they misally but they have chosen a path between the two

Now we need to understand what do you want to spend on?

Number one number two is how much is the income of the home and

What are your priorities?

So some people when they earn money the first thing they buy is something that they don't need but they simply want

If that's the first thing you're buying you're actually wasting money

Because when you have money the first things you need to think of are those that you really need

Not what you want. That's not really a necessity. The minute you have those things that you actually

need and then you have a surplus of funds and

You know you might have kept a little bit for a rainy day, etc

And you want to buy something that's just a want

Sometimes you might want to you know

Eat out perhaps you might want to spoil yourself a little bit. It's okay. It's permissible

So my beloved brothers and sisters whether I'm addressing husbands or wives is actually irrelevant. We're addressing everyone to say

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