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               120  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 8 (28): 105-127, Autumn 2021

                  From Islam’s point of view,        have     been      taken     into
               property  and  wealth  is  not        consideration and the believers
               reprehensible; rather, Islam has      are obliged to avoid lavishness
               set  particular  conditions  and      and    indulgence.     However,
               rules for all economic activities     since the Western life style has
               and  businesses  that  lead  to       become the model for Oriental
               earnings. In Islam, the wealth is     life  style,  one  of  the  most
               not junk and disposable; but it       beautiful  traits  which  is  the

               is forbidden to reject it (extravagance,   spirit  of  continence  gradually
               lavishness,     dissipation    of     faded. As the result, the family’s
               property).  Islam  opposes  and       mental relaxation has declined.
               hard-fights  this  process  that         Studying  and  investigating
               earning  wealth  and  property        the  status  of  families  indicates
               becomes      one’s    goal    and     that most families are involved
               passion  and  human  beings           in    economic,     educational,
               sacrifice their entire life for it.   health  care  problems,  etc.

               (Motahari, 1989: 18)                  Unlike  the  past,  men  and
                      “…  and  (as  for)  those      women  spend  most  of  their
                      who  hoard  up  gold  and      time working outside the house
                      silver  and  do  not  spend    and  sacrifice  their  peace  and
                      it   in    Allah's   way,      comfort for these infinite efforts.
                      announce  to  them  a             The “consumption standard”

                      painful  chastisement”.        is  one  of  the  other  influential
                      (Qur’an, 9: 34)                options  in  the  consumption
                                                     pattern.  The  standard  of  the
                  In  the  instructions  of  Islam,   consumption  is  a  criterion
               the  principles  of  contentment      which  affects  the  household
               and  proper  economic  rules
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