Eating Manners
2645.
There are certain Mustahab {recommended acts} rules to be observed while taking
a meal; they are as follows:
- Washing both the hands before
taking a meal.
- After taking a meal, one
should wash one's hands, and dry them with a dry cloth.
- The host should begin eating
first, and should also be the last to withdraw his hand. Before starting
to take a meal, the host should wash his own hands first, and thereafter,
the person sitting on his right should do so.
Then the other guests should follow him, till it is the turn of the person
sitting on the left side of the host. After finishing the meal, the person
sitting on the left side of the host should wash his hands first, and
thereafter other persons should follow him till it is the turn of the
host.
- One should say Bismillah
before starting to eat, and if there are several dishes, it is Mustahab to
say Bismillah before partaking of each of the dishes.
- One should eat with one's
right hand.
- One should eat using three or
more fingers and should not eat with two fingers only.
- If several persons are sitting
together for their meals, everyone of them should partake of the food
placed in front of him.
- One should take small bits of
food.
- One should prolong the duration
of taking a meal.
- One should chew the food
thoroughly.
- After taking one's meal one
should praise and thank Allah.
- One should lick one's fingers
clean after taking food.
- One should use a toothpick
after taking a meal. However, the toothpick should not be made of sweet
basil (a fragrant grass) or the leaves of date-palm.
- One should collect and eat the
food which is scattered on the dining cloth. However, if one takes meal in
an open place, like a desert etc, it is better to leave the food which has
fallen aside, so that it may be eaten by the animals and the birds.
- One should take one's meal in
the earlier part of the day, and in the earlier part of the night and
should not eat during the day or during the night.
- After taking one's meal one
should lie on one's back, and should place one's right foot on one's left
foot.
- One should take salt before
and after the meal.
- When eating a fruit, one
should first wash it before eating.
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