Should We divert this Good Counsel from you because you are a people immersed in extravagance?

Should We divert this Good Counsel from you because you are a people immersed in extravagance?

O Children of Adam! Take your adornment (by wearing your clean clothes), while praying and going round (the Tawaf of) the Ka'bah, and eat and drink but waste not by extravagance, certainly He (Allah) likes not Al Musrifun (those who waste by extravagance).

O Children of Adam! Take your adornment (by wearing your clean clothes), while praying and going round (the Tawaf of) the Ka'bah, and eat and drink but waste not by extravagance, certainly He (Allah) likes not Al Musrifun (those who waste by extravagance).

Say thou my bondmen who have committed extravagance against themselves despair not of the mercy of Allah verily Allah will forgive the sins altogether. Verily He! He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.

Say thou my bondmen who have committed extravagance against themselves despair not of the mercy of Allah verily Allah will forgive the sins altogether. Verily He! He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.

And their speech was naught but that they said our Lord! forgive us our sins and our extravagance in our affairs, and make our foothold firm, and make us triumph over the disbelieving people.

And their speech was naught but that they said our Lord! forgive us our sins and our extravagance in our affairs, and make our foothold firm, and make us triumph over the disbelieving people.

And their saying was no other than that they said Our Lord! forgive us our faults and our extravagance in our affair and make firm our feet and help us against the unbelieving people.

And their saying was no other than that they said Our Lord! forgive us our faults and our extravagance in our affair and make firm our feet and help us against the unbelieving people.

And it is He Who produces gardens trellised and untrellised, and date palms, and crops of different shape and taste (its fruits and its seeds) and olives, and pomegranates, similar (in kind) and different (in taste). Eat of their fruit when they ripen, but pay the due thereof (its Zakat, according to Allah's Orders 1 10th or 1 20th) on the day of its harvest, and waste not by extravagance. Verily, He likes not Al Musrifun (those who waste by extravagance),

And it is He Who produces gardens trellised and untrellised, and date palms, and crops of different shape and taste (its fruits and its seeds) and olives, and pomegranates, similar (in kind) and different (in taste). Eat of their fruit when they ripen, but pay the due thereof (its Zakat, according to Allah's Orders 1 10th or 1 20th) on the day of its harvest, and waste not by extravagance. Verily, He likes not Al Musrifun (those who waste by extravagance),

When medical expenses constituted only a small percentage of income, as was typically the case 50 years ago, an egalitarian approach to healthcare was a small extravagance. The direct and indirect costs were relatively minor and affordable.

The slump had been created by fiscal extravagance, they insisted, and therefore could be cured only by fiscal austerity. And not any old austerity it was spending on the poor, not the rich, that had to be cut, because such spending was the real cause of the trouble.

But to mock someone for having a sensible watch at a modest price puts pressure on others to join the quest for ever greater extravagance. That pressure should be turned in the opposite direction, and we should celebrate those, like Sikorski, with modest tastes and higher priorities than conspicuous consumption.

My creditors will have the first claim on my estate everything that I wanted to leave to my children. Similarly, a debt left unpaid too long by a government is a burden on future generations I may enjoy the benefits of government extravagance, but my children will have to foot the bill.

When Mao Zedong purged his most senior Party boss, Liu Shaoqi, during the Cultural Revolution, Liu s wife was paraded through the streets wearing ping pong balls around her neck as a symbol of wicked decadence and extravagance. After Mao himself died, his wife Jiang Qing was arrested and presented as a Chinese Lady Macbeth.

Conservatives who wanted to cut public spending for ideological reasons found the bond vigilante confidence fairy story to be ideally suited to their purpose. Talking up previous fiscal extravagance made a bond market attack on heavily indebted governments seem more plausible (and more likely) the confidence fairy promised to reward fiscal frugality by making the economy more productive.

But a matching omission is that prompted by our societies increasing political unsustainability, not because of the immediate financial problems like those afflicting Europe and threatening the world, but because the modern media have made visible to all the disparities in the fortunes of the rich and the poor. The rich should be urged not to flaunt their wealth extravagance amid much poverty arouses wrath.