Show offs are just idiots trying to look interesting. Even worse, they are trying to look interesting to people who either (a) don't give a damn!! or (b) are idiots themselves.
If you have to borrow a whole years salary to pay for that expensive holiday so you can bore your friends to tears with the 700+ pictures of you sitting in the airport, getting on the plane, stepping into the taxi, stepping out of the taxi, entering the hotel room, trying out the bed, brushing your teeth, changing into your pyjamas, etc., then you should probably skip vacation this year. Staying home this year will be excellent not only for your pocket, but for our poor eyes. It's better all round for the sanity of your fellow human beings!
If you haven't been able to pay your three maids their salaries for the past 6 months then you have to rethink your lifestyle, How about teaching your older kids how to use the washing machine, the iron and the vacuum? Then you can let one of those poor, overworked girls go. What's that you say? Manual work is below you? If our own Prophet Muhammed (SalAllahu alayhi wasallam) could wash and mend his own clothes, sweep his own floors and prepare his own food, who are you to look down on that?
If you're going to be paying for your luxury car at 4% interest for the next 6 years, then you should have gone for that less expensive model, you'd have been done by now.
What's that? As if!! You'll be damned if you're going to buy a cheaper car than your neighbour and you sure as heck are not going to drive that same old car for 6 whole years. Next year, you'll sell it off and let someone else finish paying for it. Then you'll take another huge loan to buy the latest luxury car you cannot afford. After all, you would rather go to jail than be seen in a 3 year old car. On your release, you can always tell everyone you were on a long vacation in the South of France.
You and your wife go to Dragon Mart (China Mall) because you can get shiny things at a reasonable price. At Dragon Mart, you can buy that gigantic chandelier made with "Xhmalooski" crystals (the Chinese cousins of the Swarovskis) . People will "ooh!" and "aah!" when they see it glittering above your shiny furniture which you purchased with one of your many bank loans. And they will think you are millionares since only millionares can afford chandeliers. Your wife instructs you, "If anyone asks you where we bought it, let's tell them "Dubai Mall"".
What's wrong with just saying "China Mall"?? Hey! Don't you know that many of those shiny things in Dubai Mall are also made in China??? Oh I see! Bargains are for poor people. God forbid you should look like a sensible shopper who looks for bargains.
Must....look......rich......or...die...trying...must......NOT......look......poor.
We would all be so much happier if we realised that ultimately, in front of Allah, it's not what we HAVE, it's what we ARE that really matters.
If you have to borrow a whole years salary to pay for that expensive holiday so you can bore your friends to tears with the 700+ pictures of you sitting in the airport, getting on the plane, stepping into the taxi, stepping out of the taxi, entering the hotel room, trying out the bed, brushing your teeth, changing into your pyjamas, etc., then you should probably skip vacation this year. Staying home this year will be excellent not only for your pocket, but for our poor eyes. It's better all round for the sanity of your fellow human beings!
If you haven't been able to pay your three maids their salaries for the past 6 months then you have to rethink your lifestyle, How about teaching your older kids how to use the washing machine, the iron and the vacuum? Then you can let one of those poor, overworked girls go. What's that you say? Manual work is below you? If our own Prophet Muhammed (SalAllahu alayhi wasallam) could wash and mend his own clothes, sweep his own floors and prepare his own food, who are you to look down on that?
If you're going to be paying for your luxury car at 4% interest for the next 6 years, then you should have gone for that less expensive model, you'd have been done by now.
What's that? As if!! You'll be damned if you're going to buy a cheaper car than your neighbour and you sure as heck are not going to drive that same old car for 6 whole years. Next year, you'll sell it off and let someone else finish paying for it. Then you'll take another huge loan to buy the latest luxury car you cannot afford. After all, you would rather go to jail than be seen in a 3 year old car. On your release, you can always tell everyone you were on a long vacation in the South of France.
You and your wife go to Dragon Mart (China Mall) because you can get shiny things at a reasonable price. At Dragon Mart, you can buy that gigantic chandelier made with "Xhmalooski" crystals (the Chinese cousins of the Swarovskis) . People will "ooh!" and "aah!" when they see it glittering above your shiny furniture which you purchased with one of your many bank loans. And they will think you are millionares since only millionares can afford chandeliers. Your wife instructs you, "If anyone asks you where we bought it, let's tell them "Dubai Mall"".
What's wrong with just saying "China Mall"?? Hey! Don't you know that many of those shiny things in Dubai Mall are also made in China??? Oh I see! Bargains are for poor people. God forbid you should look like a sensible shopper who looks for bargains.
Must....look......rich......or...die...trying...must......NOT......look......poor.
We would all be so much happier if we realised that ultimately, in front of Allah, it's not what we HAVE, it's what we ARE that really matters.
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