The Quran Has It All #20 Food & Waste

One of the enjoyment

of this life

and something we do every single day is

we eat and drink.

Is that in the Quran?

Did Allah say do it? Did Allah say

don't do it? Is there boundaries?

There is limits.

And the answer, as you all expecting,

the answer is yes.

It's amazing.

It came as an order in the Quran.

One of the ways it came when Allah

talked about food, he talked about it that

do it.

Believers, you and me,

eat.

Eat from the pure, beautiful,

nice

food.

You,

and be grateful to Allah if you were

really

among those who worship Allah.

And then he give us in the same

verse, next one is what is don't do?

What is don't eat?

He really made the following haram, and he

used the word haram, al mayta the dudu

had done the blood. And he goes on

this with the exception if you have to

do it as

a necessity.

Also,

the order didn't come only to the believers.

He said,

People eat what is on this earth halal,

pure and lawful, and don't follow

the footsteps of the shaitan in food, in

eating.

And Allah also says, faqulu mimma fil'arudi

halalamtayeba.

Also eat from what's on this earth.

So the order is there. So when I

eat

and when I drink and when we do

that, we're actually obeying Allah.

Now the limit comes in, the boundaries.

Children of Adam.

Dress beautifully. Beautify yourself when you go to

the Masjid.

Same thing. Order. Eat and drink. Now the

boundaries.

Don't waste.

And then he put something beautiful.

We talked about love.

If you want Allah to love you, don't

waste.

And what is waste? Meaning you do things,

eat more than what you need.

Or you eat to the point where it

is harmful.

Or you do things in general

where it is wasteful and it is showing

off,

or

when it is

or when it does pass the boundary

of the halal.

So here I am when I am eating

at home alone. I'm eating with the family,

or I am invited, and I am with

people.

When I put my food in my plate,

I need to remember the following. SubhanAllah.

When I am eating, I'm obeying Allah's.

And if my meaning is to obey Allah,

if I remember to put an intention,

then this will become an act of worship,

and Allah will reward me. Number 2, when

I'm putting in that plate and I'm looking

at what's in that plate and I am

saying, are you going to be able to

eat all that? And in my mind coming,

that's not pleasing to Allah. That's an act

of worship.

I remember a very famous

hadith to Rasul, alaihis salaam, and he said,

This was related by the Imam al Tirmidhi.

He said, enough for the son of Adam,

a bite, let's

that will keep him going so you don't

feel you're too hungry, you can't move or

think.

And if you have to eat, right, if

you have to eat, then the 1 third,

the 1 third, the 1 third. Now,

And this is was narrated by Ibn Abid

Dunia. The people

who eat to full satiation,

they will be the people who are really

hungry on the day of judgment.

So when I stop at the level at

the point where I wanna eat more, I

remember I wanna be from the people who

will be fed and enjoy

on the day of judgment. And look at

Saeed Naomar, what he said about food and

drink, and he earned even living in luxury.

He said, by Allah, if I want,

I would have dressed the softest thing and

I would have ate the best food and

I would have lived the highest level of

luxury. But I remembered a verse in the

Koran. Allah said,

Allah said,

Allah remind us that you have enjoyed everything

in this life,

so there isn't much left in the akhir.

So when we look at everything, we need

the balance,

the balance in everything.

Awas

created us as an Umma Wasat. We're a

nation in the middle.

Always be in the middle. Don't do the

2 extreme.

And when you come to wastefulness,

remember, Allah doesn't love them. The second thing

which also occurs in the Koran,

Those who waste, waste time, waste food, waste

energy, waste

resources. They are the brothers of the shaitan.

Do I want to be a brother of

a shaitan or a sister of a shaitan?

The answer is no. So let's all, especially

in this blessed month,

let us let us all make a part

of our Ibadah, part of our acts of

worship beside

salah and the fasting and the Quran and

all the good deeds and the charity. Let's

make part of our

is that we are not going to waste,

and we're going to eat the way that

pleases Allah with the intention that this is

going to get me closer to Allah.

May Allah

always make us from those who are grateful

for all the blessings that Allah had bestowed

us.

us.