The Excellence of Adopting Moderation in Dress

Sitting beside the call to humility is its balancing partner: moderation. This brief chapter teaches that neglecting your appearance without need is no virtue. Allah, the source of every blessing, loves to see the trace of His gifts on the one He has favoured.

Read together with the chapters around it, the lesson is a middle path: neither flaunting wealth out of pride nor pretending poverty out of false piety, but wearing Allah's bounties with gratitude and good care.