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2009 Talibiddeen Jr. Islamic Eating Etiquette Lessons
To mention Allah’s Name means to say “Bismillah.” We should say “Bismillah” before we
begin to eat. What happens if you don’t say bismillah before you eat?
Let’s find out……
Narrated By 'Umar bin Abi Salama
I was a boy under the care of Allah's Apostle and my hand used to go around the
dish while I was eating. So Allah's Apostle said to me, 'O boy! Mention the Name of
Allah and eat with your right hand, and eat of the dish what is nearer to you." Since
then I have applied those instructions when eating. (Bukhari)
Narrated By Umayyah Ibn Makhshi:
Umayyah was sitting and a man was eating. He did not mention Allah's Name until
there remained the last morsel. When he raised it to his mouth, he said: In the
Name of Allah at the beginning and at the end of it. The Prophet (salla Allahu alayhi
wa sallam) laughed and said: “The devil kept eating along with him, but when he
mentioned Allah's Name, he (shaytaan) vomited what was in his belly.” (Abu Dawud)
Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
When a person enters his house and mentions the Name of Allah at the time of
entering it and while eating the food, Satan says (addressing himself: You have no
place to spend the night and no evening meal; but when he enters without mentioning
the Name of Allah, the Satan says: You have found a place to spend the night, and
when he does not mention the Name of Allah while eating food, he (the Satan) says:
You have found a place to spend the night and evening meal. (Muslim 5006)
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As we read, we should mention the Name of Allah before eating by saying “bismillah.” If
we don’t say this, Shaytan eats right along with us. If we forget to mention Allah’s name
before we eat, when we remember (that we forgot to say it) we should say:
Say: Bismillahi fee awwalihi wa akhiri
It is important that we correctly pronounce (say) our words. So let’s practice…
� Watch your teacher as he/she says “Bismillahi fee awwalihi wa akhiri”
� Say “Bismillahi fee awwalihi wa akhiri” correctly 10 times in front of your
teacher.
� Check off a box each time you say it correctly.
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“Bismillahi fee awwalihi wa akhiri”
This means “In the Name of Allah in its beginning and end.”
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(To be completed after worksheet activities)
� What do we say before we eat? What happens if we don’t say bismillah?
� What do we say if we forget to say bismillah before we eat? What happens when
we say this.
� Put a sticker in your Eating Adab Review booklet when you are finished with this
lesson.
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Uh-oh! Muhammad forgot to say bismillah before he ate!
When he remembered that he forgot to say it, he wanted to say the
correct duaa.
Help Muhammad. Which one is the correct one to say? Circle it.
1. Bismillahi fee akhiri wa awwalihi
2. Bismillahi fee awwalihi wa akhiri
3. Bismillahi awwalihi wa fee akhiri
4. Bismillahi akhiri fee awwalihi
(For younger students, teacher can read the choices to student)
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“Bismillahi fee awwalihi wa akhiri” by ____________________(date).
Practice saying it daily until you memorize it and when you eat if you
forget to say bismillah.
Hifz Helper
Cut this out, laminate it, and each time you sit down to work on memorization, check off the
times you say it with a board marker.
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Just as we remember Allah before we eat, we should remember Allah after we eat.
� Choose an after eating duaa (see next page) to learn and say it after every
meal. Fill out the chart “Remember to Remember Allah” chart (see web page)
for one week (or as assigned by teacher) to see if you remember to
remember Allah when you eat.
� Put a stamp in your Eating Adab booklet when you have memorized a duaa
Narrated By Abu Umamah
Whenever the dining sheet of the Prophet was taken away (i.e., whenever he
finished his meal), he used to say: "Al-Hamdu lillah kathiran taiyiban
mubarakan fihi ghaira makfiy wala muwada' wala mustaghna'anhu
Rabbuna."(Bukhari)
Narrated By Abu Umamah
Whenever the Prophet finished his meals (or when his dining sheet was
taken away), he used to say. "Praise be to Allah Who has satisfied our needs
and quenched our thirst. Your favor cannot by compensated or denied."
Once he said, upraise be to You, O our Lord! Your favor cannot be
compensated, nor can be left, nor can be dispensed with, O our Lord!"
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‘All praise is for Allaah who fed me this and provided it for me without any might
nor power from myself.’
Alhamdulillahilladhi at-amanee hatha wa razaqaneehi min gheyri howlin minnee wa
laa quwwatin
‘Allaah be praised with an abundant beautiful blessed praise, a never-ending praise,
a praise which we will never bid farewell to and an indispensable praise, He is our
Lord .’
Alhamdulillah hamdan katheeran tayyiban mubaarakan feehi gheyra makfiyyin wa
laa muwadda’in wa laa mustagnaan anhu rabbunaa.
Source: Hisnul Muslim
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(Older Students)
Copy the duaa that you have selected to memorize, daily in your notebook.
If assigned, copy it in stair step fashion, where you write the first word on the
first line. On the second line, write the first and second word, on the third line,
write the first three words in order, etc.
Work on memorizing it each day and of course, during meal times.
(Older Students)
Learn what each word in the duaa you are learning means. Write the duaa out and
write the English translation word (or phrase) by word.
Try to pick out the three (or four) root letters in each word.
Using a dictionary like Hans Wehr, look up the root and see if you can find the
word. If you do, does it make sense in this context? Consult your teacher for help
if needed.
For younger students, teacher can give a brief summarization of what the duaa is
saying.
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Teacher prep: Print out a good copy of the duaa student is learning. Cut up the
duaa into squares, one word per square and scramble. Have student put the squares
in order to form the duaa.
For younger students, provide an uncut copy to use when working through
unscrambling.
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Remember to Remember Allah Breakfast Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Before
Eating
After
Eating
Dinner Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Before
Eating
After
Eating
Duplicate as needed or laminate and color in with a board marker.
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We should eat and drink with our right hand because the Prophet (salla Allahu
alayhi wa sallam) told us to do this. In addition, Shaytan drinks and eats with his
left hand and we do not want to be like Shaytan as he is our enemy (against us).
Narrated By 'Umar bin Abi Salama
I was a boy under the care of Allah's Apostle and my hand used to go around
the dish while I was eating. So Allah's Apostle said to me, 'O boy! Mention the
Name of Allah and eat with your right hand, and eat of the dish what is nearer
to you." Since then I have applied those instructions when eating.(Bukhari)
Salim, on the authority of his father, reported Allah’s Messenger(salla Allahu
alayhi wa sallam) as saying: “None of you should eat with his left hand and drink
with that (left hand) for the Satan eats with his left hand and drinks with that
hand.” (Muslim, 5010)
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If you have trouble telling which hand is which, try
this trick.
The word “Left” starts with what letter? L
If you hold up your left hand (with the back of your
hand facing you) with your fingers sticking straight
up and your thumb points out, your fingers and thumb make the letter L, “L for
Left”
If you do this with your right, the L will be backwards.
Q: Which hand is your right hand? Hold it up.
Q: Which hand is your left hand? Hold it up. What do you do with your left hand?
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� Trace your right hand in the box.
� On your hand tracing write, “I eat with my right.”
� Place this in the area where you eat to remind you while eating.
Teacher Note: You can replace this activity for TJ’s Eating Reminder Placement,”
available at TJ’s Islamic Studies Adab Page (student also traces his/her right
hand).
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Kul, Kulee Yameen Shimaal
Yakul
Vocabulary:
When the Prophet (salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam) said eat with your right, he said:
“Kul biyameenik.”
Say: “Kul biyameenik.”
Kul is a command (to tell something to do something) for “eat.”
If you wanted to tell a girl to eat (or to do something else), you would add an “ee”
sound to the end: Kulee.
To say a “he” eats/is eating (third person), you would say “yakul(u).”
Example: Muhammad yakul. (Muhammad eats/is eating).
Abi yakul. (My father eats/is eating.)
To say a “she” (third person) eats/is eating, you would say “takul(u)
Example: Samirah takul(u). (Samirah eats/is eating.)
Ummy takul(u) (My mother eats/is eating.)
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Yameen is “right.” Shimaal is “left.” Bi means “with.”
Ash Shaytaan yakul bish shimaal. (Shaytaan eats with the left.)
If you see someone eating with their left hand, you can say (politely) “Kul(ee)
biyameenik” or “Ash Shaytaan yakul bish shimaal.”
Practice saying these two sentences several times.
Pick a “he” and a “she” in your class/family. Tell someone that he/she is eating.
� What hand do we eat and drink with? Why?
� What hand does shaytan eat and drink with?
� Say two phrases you could say to remind someone to eat with their right
hand.
� How do you say “right” and “left” in Arabic?
End of Lesson
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No matter who may be on our left (someone older, younger, mother, father, etc),
we pass to the right because this is what the Prophet (salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam)
said we should do.
Anas b. Malik reported that there was brought to Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) a cup of milk mixed with water, while there was on his
right a desert Arab and on his left Abu Bakr. He (the Holy Prophet)
drank; he then gave it to the desert Arab and said:
(Give to one) who is on the right, then again who is on the right.
(Muslim 5032)
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Sameer is sitting at the table in different places for each meal. Write the name of
the person he should pass food or drink to in each case.
Sameer
4.__________________________________
____
Muh
ammad
Nabil
Yusuf
Sameer
2.__________________________________
____
Ishaq
Sulayman
Dawud
Sameer
3.__________________________________
____
Ishaq
Isa
Khalil
Sameer M
uham
mad
1.__________________________________
____
Harun
Jamil
Turn this into a lapbook activity or file folder game by cutting out the tables. You can also make your
own tables and you students’ names to make the activity more personal.
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Idea: Apply what you learned in this lesson by practicing which direction
to pass food during a meal.
Teacher Instructions
Materials needed: plate or object to acts as a plate/dish.
Simulate an activity as in the worksheet where students/family members sit
at the table/maidah.
Let children take turns being “it” and have members sit at the table around
the child. The child must tell to whom he/she would pass the plate.
Tell everyone to “scramble” (going this way and that (while teacher/parent
counts to an unknown number). When teacher shouts, "stop," everyone sits at
a different location. The child who is “it” must decide who is on his right and
pass the plate to that person.
Continue, letting everyone have a chance to be “it.”
End of Lesson
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When choosing/eating food from a tray/dish, we should pick/eat from what is
closest to us. At the time of the Prophet (salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam) and in many
Muslim households, members of the family all eat from one dish.
Narrated By 'Umar bin Al Salama, who was the son of Umm Salama, the wife of the
Prophet: Once I ate a meal with Allah's Apostle and I was eating from all sides of the
dish. So Allah's Apostle said to me, "Eat of the dish what is nearer to you."(Bukhari)