Should I exchange our old lamp for new?

I am married, it's my second marriage, and I am very happy (the first marriage was annulled and lasted a couple of days, it was a misunderstanding). I love my husband and he loves me and spoils me in every way. He built a brand new house for us to move in after the marriage, and furnished it luxuriously for me.


He went away on a hunting expedition, and I and my maid were on the balcony, when an old man, a Maghrabi by the look of him, came near, shouting "who will exchange old lamps for new lamps?", and a crowd of children, following him, laughing and teasing him. I and my maid were so amused with it, and decided to test if the man cries out the truth.


My maid recollected that there was an old brass lamp among my husband's possessions, a simple junk, very dirty and worthless. I wonder, would he be angry if we exchange it for a new one? I know it's his belonging, but after all, it's just an old lamp. Should I exchange it?

Should I exchange our old lamp for new?
Rub it first.
Reply:If you guys bought it together and it holds no sentimental value to either of you then I think its fine.





But if he owned it before he met you it may be a family heirloom or the first lamp he ever bought. It may have some sentimental value to him that you don't know about and he would be hurt if you traded it away.





It may even be an antique worth more than you think.





You may want to apply this same thinking to everything he owned before he met you because you don't know what his stuff is worth to him.
Reply:No, unless you don't have any wishes you want to become true. Then just give it to the guy and let him take yourself and your castle to Africa, or wherever it is the evil sorcerer lives.
Reply:Yes
Reply:Oh, bride of Aladdin, let not thy love of the new and novel cast aside the old and trusted, however worn! Think of thy love for thy husband and the trust he has placed in thee to watch over his house and belongings in his absence, and forebear to part with the slightest part of his familiar treasures, no matter how unworthy they may seem.


What will no doubt please your husband, and Allah as well, would be to toss the Maghrabi some small silver coins, with which he may purchase food and shelter, and may enable him to give alms to some needy person himself.


Let others less fortunate than thee receive new lamps for old!