Tom Facchine – Can I Spend My Money On Luxury
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The speaker advises the audience to ask themselves whether they believe fully in their values and needs. They suggest asking themselves the question of their relationship to their community and finding the right amount of duty and fidelity to their community. The speaker also emphasizes that things happen in context and not isolation, and that everyone needs their money elsewhere to live their life.
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Muslims have to be very careful
when it comes to luxury.
Normally, when people ask about this question, they're
only thinking about it from an individualistic point
of view.
Is it permissible for me to have a
luxury car or spend my money on a
luxury car?
What if I'm not doing it with a
bad intention? What if, you know, whatever?
And we don't look at it from a
communal or a collective point of view because
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he said
that
you don't believe fully or you don't believe
in me.
That's basically a
it's a liability.
It's
a deficiency in your faith.
If
you go to bed full and your neighbor
goes to bed hungry Or if there's a
Muslim out there in your location
who's suffering
and you're not taking care of it. And
so
forget about the thing in and of itself.
Ask yourself, what's your relationship to your community?
Because things are a 0 sum game at
the end of the day.
Right?
You can put your money into a luxury
car or you can make your money work.
You can make your money work for the
Muslims, and you can make your money work
for the afterlife.
Are we in a situation
where the Muslims in your area don't need
your financial support?
They don't. They're good. You know, the masjid
is well funded and, you know, you've got
an imam and you've got other people,
you know, who are paid staff, they're paid
well so that they're gonna stick around. They're
gonna, you know, work their hardest.
You know, there are programs and there's all
this sort of stuff. If you're if, you
know, there's nobody who's who's going hungry, there
everybody can pay their bills, everybody can pay
their rent, nobody's getting evicted.
If that's your situation,
then, okay, maybe.
But I don't know anybody in that situation.
I know that there's suburban Masjid and inner
city Masjid, and I know that inner city
Masjid are trying to keep the lights on
and the suburban Masjid are often talking about
how big their chandelier is gonna be.
Right? So
I don't think that if we get out
of the narrow mindset of, well, is it
permissible to buy this thing or to have
this thing?
Let's talk about what's the
requisite amount of duty and fidelity you feel
to the other Muslims in your area.
Think about the poorest person,
the poorest Muslim that comes to your masjid,
and think about how they will feel
if they see you driving up in that
car.
If you can confidently say that
those other Muslims
aren't gonna feel any sort of way about
it, then Bismillah, go ahead. But that's usually
not the situation,
you know, and we need to honestly, it's
a it's a it's a a bigger problem
than halal haram
when we
think that our money is ours and we
think that our money is for
our own sort of pleasure and, you know,
these sorts of things.
Again, you can work bare permissible fiqh and
we can talk about the the issue in
isolation,
but things don't happen in isolation. Things happen
in context. They happen in community.
And
the Ummah needs your money elsewhere, to be
honest with you.
Like, the Ummah needs your support and your
local Ummah, your local community needs your support
more than you need a luxury car, to
be quite frank.