What is the way out of a financial crisis facing a family residing in the Gulf due to the father's declining business in building materials and accumulating debts? And is the return of the mother and siblings to Syria a viable solution?

Counsel varies according to circumstances and details, but taking precautions and disregarding weak possibilities is necessary. Being content with basic sustenance and living frugally is better for a person than bearing debts, and scarcity of provisions is treated by being content with less. Imam Ahmad mentioned the virtue of poverty, and that what is little of this world will be less for reckoning, and that the nobility of the heart is contentment with Allah, and that this world consists of but a few days.