Intentions Of Eating

• I will make Wu u before, and after eating food (i.e. I will wash hands and mouth and rinse it).
• I will consume food to gain strength to worship,
• Recite the [Holy Quran],
• Serve my parents,
• Acquire religious knowledge,
• Travel with a Madani Qafilah in order to learn Sunnah,
• Partake in the area-visit to call people towards righteousness,
• Ponder over the matters of the Hereafter and earn alal sustenance to meet my needs.

(These intentions will be beneficial only when one consumes food less than his

appetite. Conversely, excessive eating only engenders laziness in worship, inclination

towards sin, stomach ailments and disorders).

• I will eat sitting on the floor.
• Use a dining-mat1 according to Sunnah.
• Observe veil within veil2 (with the kurta or the shawl).
• Sit according to Sunnah.
• Other Du’as prior to consuming food.
• Eat with three fingers.
• Eat small morsels.
• Chew the food properly.
• Pick up and eat the grains of food if fall on the dining-mat.
• Break every morsel of the bread above the container of curry (so that every bread
• Crumb falls into the container).
• Lick the bones and spices etc. clean thoroughly.
• Eat less than appetite.
• Wipe the plate clean at the end with the intention of acting upon Sunnah.
• Lick the fingers clean three times.
• (After cleaning the plate, I will) Pour water into it and drink1 the water to earn the reward of freeing a slave.
• Not get up unnecessarily unless the dining-mat has been removed (as it is also a Sunnah).
• (after eating, I will) Recite Masnun Du’as along with alat-‘Alan-Nabi once before and after the Du’as.
• Pick my teeth.