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and have those aspirations which you would not achieve. You don’t feel ashamed of it.’
(Al-Mu’jam-ul-Kabeer lit-Tabarani, vol. 25, pp. 172, Hadees 421)
Sayyiduna Usamah Bin Zayd رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ bought a female slave on credit for one hundred dinars to be paid in a month’s period. The Noble Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘Are you not astonished at Usamah who has bought a female slave on a month’s credit? Certainly, Usamah has long hopes. I swear to the One in Whose power my life is! When I open my eye, I presume that death will come before I blink; and when I take the bowl to my mouth, I never presume that I will stay alive till I place it; and when I take any morsel, I presume that death will stop it in the throat before I swallow it. I swear to the One in Whose power my life is! Indeed, the thing promised to you will certainly take place; you cannot escape it.’
(Attargheeb Wattarheeb, vol. 4, pp. 108, Hadees 5127)
All described above refers to an individual person who has no family to support. As for a family head, he is also deemed to be ‘single’ in terms of his individual life. However, in terms of his responsibilities as the head of the family, the rulings are different. Let’s have a look at them:
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