Drinking water after meals
Q: Should I drink water immediately after my meals?
Etiquettes
Eating food on a chapaati
Q: Can we keep food on a chapati and eat it,like curry etc. Some say it is haraam.
Washing the hands in the same plate one had eaten in
Q: Is it permissible to wash the hands in the same plate that we ate the food (after eating)?
Removing hair from food items
Q: If a hair from a human or animal gets on a food or drink item, do we have to dispose of it? I have multiple cats at home.
Sunnah method of drinking water
Q: I would like to confirm about the sunnat way of drinking water, should we drink water in 3 breaths or 3 sips.
Could you please provide arabic ibaarat as well?
Preparing more than one dish of food
Q:
1. Is it an authentic statement in Islam that, if we eat with more than 2 items of food, we have to feed a guest or guests?
2. If anybody cooks and eats with more than 5 or 6 items almost every day, will Allah Ta'ala will like it?
3. And if anybody wastes foods mostly due to cooking too much, that person will be sinful?
4. If a wife's husband always wants to eat more than 5 or more items, but she is busy with her kids and other household works, and her personal prayers, will she be sinful?
Stirring food in an anti-clockwise motion
Q: Is there any sunnah or recommended way to stir food, tea or coffee? Should it be stirred in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction?
Eating with the left hand due to necessity
Q: I saw in one of the posts that we are forbidden from eating with the left hand. In my mothers case she had a stroke and can only use her left hand, is she committing a sin by doing so?
Using a plate with a silver line around it
Q: Is it permissible to use plates that have a silver line around the plate (silver paint around the plate)?
What should one do with the food that one takes out with a toothpick?
Q: If something is stuck in our teeths, after taking it out with toothpick, can we eat that?