Dua Before Eating Sticker

Manners and Etiquette to follow when you are eating food:

• Recite Dua ‘Bismillahi wa’ala Barakatillah.
• Eat with the right hand.
• Begin and end it with salt.
• Take little morsels and chew each morsel well.
• Don’t extend your hand to morsel till you swallow the previous one.
• Don’t speak of the defects of cooking. The Prophet never did it. When he liked a food, he ate and when he did not like it, he did not eat it.
• Except fruits, he used to take from the nearest side of the dish. The Prophet said: Eat from the side of your front and not from every side, not from the middle.
• Don’t cut bread or meat with knife. The Prophet said: Cut meat with your teeth.
• Prophet said: If any morsel of food falls down, take it up and clear off the dust attached to it and don’t leave it for the devil.
• Don’t wipe out your hands with handkerchiefs till you like lick your fingers.
• Don’t blow breath in hot food as it is prohibited, but be patient till it becomes cold.

Eat odd number of dates, grapes and such other fruits which can be counted.