Storing Up Provision for One’s Family

Question

The Gracious Lord has promised in the Holy Qur’an to provide sustenance for all creation. In such a case, may we accumulate some wealth for our wives and children? Is doing so permissible or impermissible, or not?

Answer

It is stated in the noble hadith that it is better to leave one’s heirs in such a state that they do not have to stretch out a hand in begging. Therefore there is no harm in securing that assurance for them; but neither should it come to the point that, for the sake of one’s children, the distinction between haram and halal is done away with and the command of the Pure Lord is…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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