Adnan Rajeh – Jumuah 27-09-2024

The Prophet ﷺ would say before food and

afterwards and I narrate two hadiths for you

inshallah quickly.

It's an authentic chain of narration for this

hadith, it's in the Jamia al-Tirmidhi and

other books as well, the Tuhfa and others,

and it's narrated to us by Umar ibn

Abi Salama.

Umar ibn Abi Salama is one of the

sahaba who grew up as a child in

the Prophet ﷺ's homes because he lived with

Umm Salama and he was a child.

The Prophet ﷺ altogether had 18 children in

his house living, most of them were not

his.

18 children were taken care of within the

house and I've shared the names and the

numbers before in other sessions.

So Umar ibn Abi Salama is one of

them, he grows up in the house of

the Prophet ﷺ, so he tells us this

story, he said he entered the house once

and the Prophet ﷺ had food on the

ground, so the Prophet ﷺ called him, come

close, say Bismillah, وَكُلُ الْبِيَمِينِ can eat with

your right hand, وَكُلُ الْمِمَّا يَلِي can eat

from that which is closest to you in

the plate.

And this is the adab the Prophet ﷺ

followed and the way he ate, and this

is the adab he taught the children in

his home to eat by ﷺ.

It's an adab that we have to teach

our children to have as well.

Sometimes because we don't eat in collective plates

where we're all kind of putting our hands

in, we're eating in our own bowls, it

doesn't really change that much when it comes

to scooping for yourself.

So the same adab applies.

So you scoop from that which is closest

to you within the container that you're taking

the food out, and you eat what is

proportionate for yourself in terms of the number

of people around you.

So you have to look how people are

actually coming through the food, how much food

there is, and then a quick mathematical calculation

in your mind, you can figure out how

much of this food is actually your portion,

and then you take that much and you

take it from the closest part of the

container and put it in your own bowl,

and then your plate, you make sure that

the food is closest to you on the

plate.

And this is the adab of the Prophet

ﷺ.

He taught them to eat with their right

hands, and to talk about the right hand

piece.

I'll leave it for a different session insha

'Allah ta'ala.

The second hadith I want to narrate for

you insha'Allah quickly.

He says ﷺ indeed, and this is a

hadith also narrated in the collection of Imam

Muslim, that indeed Allah ﷻ will be satisfied

with His servant, that His servant eats a

food that they like, and they say and

then they show gratitude to Him for it.

Or drink a drink that they like and

they show gratitude to Allah ﷻ for it.

Meaning it's not that complicated to please Allah

ﷻ within your life.

It's not that complicated.

He grants you the blessing of food and

the blessing of drink.

Eat it and enjoy.

Just make sure you show hamd and shukr

at the end of it to Him ﷻ.

If you do that, then He is pleased

with you.

He will be pleased with you just remembering

that what you just ate was a gift,

granted to you by Allah ﷻ.

And inside your heart you feel gratitude to

Him ﷻ for what you just ate.

That's the simplicity of this act.

It's very simple.

You eat the food.

الحمد لك يا رب.

Thank you.

الحمد.

الحمد لله الذي طعمنا وسقانا من غير حول

منا ولا قوة.

And other narrations.

الحمد لله حمداً كثيراً طيباً مباركاً فيه غير

مودع ولا مستغنى عنه ربنا.

There's all these different things you can say.

You can just say الحمد لله to Allah

ﷻ more than enough.

But this hadith is saying, إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيَرْضَ

This will please Allah ﷻ.

Indeed it will please Him.

He's not looking for anything heroic.

He doesn't need acrobatics.

Just when you eat the food and you

drink the drink, just remember to turn to

Him and say الحمد يا رب that you

granted me this.

And to remember that it's a gift and

a bounty that was given to you by

Allah ﷻ.

And if you do that then you're good.

It doesn't have to be complicated and it's

not actually designed to be complicated.

But when we forget the basics, the simple

things, the daily stuff, the issues that are

ongoing occurrences, then that's a problem.

But it's very...

Another scholar would recite this, Hayyam Nawi.

He said, ما أسهل أن يرضى ربنا How

easy it is for our Lord to be

pleased.

فقال فله الحمد على سهولة مرضاته So we

are grateful to Him that pleasing Him is

easy.

Because He could have made pleasing Himself difficult

and then it would be harder for us

to do so.

But He made pleasing Him easy for us.

So we are grateful also for the fact

that He made pleasing Him easy to us.

Just eat the food and drink the drink

and show some gratitude at the end of

it.

And that will please Allah ﷻ.

And I think there's a beautiful adab within

that.

يروي الإمام التلمذي في جامعه بسند صحيح عن

أنس ابن مالك رضي الله عنه قال قال

رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم إِنَّ

اللَّهَ لَيَرْضَى مِنَ الْعَبْدِ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ الْأَكْلَةَ فَيَحْمَدَهُ

عَلَيْهَا أَوْ يَشْرَبَ الشَّرْبَةَ فَيَحْمَدَهُ عَلَيْهَا