Livelihood and subsistence (ma'isha, qut)

Ma'isha is what a person lives on — property, subsistence, clothing and maintenance — and rizq in God's Book is His bounty on His servants: «in the sky is your provision and what you are promised». The Qur'anic pattern of living is a balance between extravagance and stinginess. ¹

In the Muslim home livelihood includes the maintenance due from the husband to his family and from the father to the child: «men are the caretakers of women with what God has favoured some over others and with what they spend of their wealth». On this the jurists built the chapters of nafaqat: maintenance of the wife, the kin, the child and the servant, in fairness and within means. ^{1 2}