There is an abundance of proof in the Qur’an and Sunnah regarding the impermissibility of ostentation; and those who show off are often dispraised, as when Allah The Almighty Said (what means): {So ...

This commentary was written by CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer. In 1899, a scholar named Thorstein Veblen published a book he thought was a work of serious economic and social theory. Somewhat to his chagrin ...