REMINDERS
Don’t Waste FOOD Ramadan is the month in which every day, from sunrise to sunset, we abstain from eating and drinking. We break our fasts at sunset with the Iftar meal. Unfortunately, the case for many of us is that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs. Especially at masjid (mosque) and when we are invited for Iftar, we pile our plates with enormous amounts of food and we can only eat a tiny amount of the food we have taken. The rest ends up, yes you got it, in the trash can. Every year it’s the same thing: piles and piles of food are thrown away every night after Iftar.
However, we see there supposed to use Rama“...Remember the are people on the other dan as an opportunity to Sunnah of the extreme of living where increase in our reward, Prophet (sws) and fill they cannot even afford improve in our actions your stomach 1/3 with and relationship to Alenough food to break food 1/3 with water their fasts. How can we lah, and become better and leave 1/3 for air..” Muslims overall. So let’s possibly throw away food the way we always improve in this aspect as do? When Allah has blessed us with well inshaAllah: be grateful to Allah so much food, what a pity it is that for the food He gave us and don’t we show our gratitude by throwing waste food or drink. away what He gave us. Especially at the masjid (mosque), Ramadan is not just about staying people have this habit of wasting. away from food and drink in the day Many masajid (mosques) offer free time. That is not the purpose. We are Iftar and dinner every night for the
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Muslims to break their fasts. However, many of us feel the urge to take as much food as can fit on one plate, even two plates. Even though we cannot eat all of it, we still take it. There is that greed that I see every Ramadan. There is that greed to take as much as food as we can. Do we perhaps feel that the food will run out, so we have to take as much as we can right away so that there is no possibility of us being hungry? Do we perhaps want to make sure that the people at the end of the line will not get any food? Do we perhaps want to make sure the children have enough to eat, so we pile both our plates and theirs? Do we perhaps have a strong desire to make sure no trashcan remains empty of food? It makes no sense to me why on earth we must take more than we can eat. Everyone tries to make some Ramadan resolutions right? Some of us want to stop watching TV; others want to stop listening to music. Let’s try this one too: Don’t waste food and drink. In case you are not sure how to go about taking food without wasting, this is how it goes: RAMADAN ISSUE 2012