Re: Retirement account and buying car
A riot, I'm sure.
Reminds me of one our more "religious" elders in the community back home. I put religious in quotes, because I don't necessarily think wearing some traditional Pakistani clothes and putting on a beard makes you a more pious person.
He goes around to everyone preaching against materialism. He says its a fitna.
Do you know the man has the audacity to own a 5 acre ranch, his own collection of barnyard pets, a nicely furnished 4-5 bedroom house (they only have 1 kid), with a fireplace (they live in Florida...really now), and the latest model SUV for the wife, and a Mercedes for the Dad, and I don't care to know what the daughter drives. Daughter goes to school at a private school, which they pay tuition for, when she could have easily gone to a public school that would have been a little farther from home to get the same degree.
Yeah, fitna my *^$.
An ideal example of a "jalne waley ka mooN kala"
Even if we forgive her for all the generalizing...iam sure she's omitted tonnes of details in the entire story. The guy would very well be giving away his due Zakaah and loads of Sadaqah....and if despite all that Allah places bakarah in his wealth, he should spend it on himself and his family....which he is doing.