Be Mindful of Food & Drink and NOT to be Wasteful.
(Islamic attitudes towards food)
Al Quran 141 : 6, for example, highlights this point:
It is He who produceth gardens, with trellises and without, and dates, and tilth with produce of all kinds and olives and pomegranates, similar (in kind) and different (in variety): eat of their fruit in their season, but render the dues that are proper on the day that the harvest is gathered. But waste not by excess: for Allah loveth not the wasters.
Food is seen as a gift from God and thus wasting it is seen as a sign of ungratefulness for this gift.
Moreover, there are many hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) that address Islamic dietary habits at the heart of which is respectfulness towards food.
For example:
Nothing is worse than a person who fills his stomach. It should be enough for the son of Adam to have a few bites to satisfy his hunger. If he wishes more, it should be: one-third for his food, one-third for his liquids, and one-third for his breath.
The point of this hadith is clear: people should eat only as much as they need and they often need much less than they think.
Muslims are commanded by the Qur’an to be mindful of food and not to let it go waste, Muslims should be made aware of the huge amounts of food they waste every day.
“Wasting food is a sin and breaches the very concept of "Ramadan" Islamic scholar explains “Apart from the many health benefits, fasting educates Muslims to experience and understand hunger, deprivation and grief of the needy.”
Muslims to be more careful in managing food, pointing out that the food one person wastes is another person’s meal. He also asked Muslims to share food rather than enjoy it all by himself.
“Food is seen as a gift from God and thus wasting it is seen as a sign of ungratefulness for this gift,”
“A verse in the Qur’an says
‘Give to the near of kin his due, and also to the needy and the wayfarers. Do not squander your wealth wastefully; for those who squander wastefully are Satan’s brothers, and Satan is ever ungrateful to his Lord.’
This makes it clear people must eat only as much as they need and they often need much less than they feel,” he said.
In another Hadith, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said:
“The food of one person is sufficient for two, the food of two people suffices for four people and the food of four people suffices for eight.”
The Hadith explains that there is enough food in the world but if the level of greed in people vanishes, the poor and hungry can be fed without any crisis.
Be Mindful of Food & Drink and NOT to be Wasteful, Further wasting it is seen as a sign of ungratefulness towards the gift of Almighty, and eat only the much less than the feel and REST SHARE WITH OTHERS ... Certainly its a great blessing.
Quran The Final Testament
