Food and Restraint

Answer:

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah,

I pray this finds you in the best of health and spirits. We would recommend that you follow the Prophetic sunnas and proper manners related to food. These are explained in Imam Nawawi's Riyad al-Salihin in detail:

Book on the Adab related to Food

• 100. On saying the basmala when starting to eat and praising Allah afterwards
• 101. On not criticising food and the recommendation to praise it
• 102. On what someone says when food is brought when he is fasting and he does not break his fast
• 103. On what someone says when invited to eat and is followed by someone
• 104. On eating from in front of one and instructing someone who eats badly
• 105. On the prohibition against joining two dates or the like together when a group eat without his companions' permission
• 106. What one says and does when he eats without becoming full
• 107. On the command to eat from the side of the dish and the prohibition against eating from the middle
• 108. On it being disliked to eat reclining
• 109: On the Recommendation to eat with three fingers and the recommendation to lick the fingers
• 110. On a lot of hands for the food
• 111. On the proper manner of drinking and the recommendation to take three breaths outside the vessel
• 112. On it being disliked to drink from the mouth of the vessel, and the clarification that the dislike is not a prohibition
• 113. On it being disliked to blow on drinks
• 114. On the permission to drink while standing and clarification that it is better and more perfect to drink sitting
• 115. On The recommendation for the one providing the drink to be the last to drink
• 116. On the permission to drink from all pure vessels except those made of gold and silver

And Allah alone gives success.

Faraz Rabbani

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