{"id":16568,"date":"2018-03-08T06:26:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T06:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=16568"},"modified":"2018-03-10T06:41:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T06:41:54","slug":"the-blessing-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=16568","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing of Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every grain of food and every drop of water (or other halaal drink) is a great bounty of Allah Ta\u2018ala. Deliberately wasting any food is indeed a severe ingratitude. Ingratitude to the favours of Allah Ta\u2018ala results in the wrath of Allah Ta\u2018ala descending and the snatching away of that bounty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The practice of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) in this regard was to thoroughly clean the utensil from which he ate. He also stressed upon the Ummah to do so. Jaabir (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) reports that Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) instructed that the fingers should be licked after eating and the utensil should also be cleaned. Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) then said: \u201cYou do not know in which particle of food the barakah (blessing) lies\u201d. (Saheeh Muslim #5300)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Furthermore, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) is reported to have said: \u201cThe one who eats from a utensil and cleans it completely (so that no particle of food is left), the utensil supplicates for forgiveness on his behalf\u201d. (Tirmizi #1804)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is therefore clear that the so called \u201cetiquette\u201d of the West of deliberately leaving over some portion of the food and drink in the utensil is totally against Islamic etiquette. It is a sign of ingratitude to Allah Ta\u2018ala. Thus, the followers of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) should therefore only follow him\u00a0 in every aspect of their lives, including eating and drinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16570,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions\/16570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}