Food and fasting

Meals, hospitality and breaking the fast

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Invocations for breaking the fast

#176The thirst has gone and the veins are quenched, and reward is confirmed, if Allah wills.
#177O Allah, I ask You by Your mercy which envelopes all things, that You forgive me.

Invocations before eating

#178When you are about to eat, you should say:(Bismil-lah.)and if you forget to say it before starting, then you should say (when you remember):In the name of Allah in it’s beginning and end.
#179Whomever Allah feeds, should say:(O Allah, bless it for us and feed us better than it.) and whomever Allah gives milk to drink should say:(O Allah, bless it for usand give us more of it.)

Invocations after eating

A dinner guest's invocation for his host

#182O Allah, bless for them, that which You have provided them, forgive them and have mercy upon them.

Invocation for someone who gives you drink or offers it to you

#183O Allah, feed him who fed me, and provide with drink him who provided me with drink.

Invocation for a family who invites you to break your fast with them

#184May the fasting break their fast in your home, and may the dutiful and pious eat your food, and may the angles send prayers upon you.

Invocation for someone who offers you food when you are fasting, which you decline

#185If you are not invited (to a meal) then answer. If you happen to be fasting, then supplicate (for those present) and if you are not fasting, then eat.

What to say when you are fasting and someone is rude to you

#186I am fasting, I am fasting.

Invocation for when you see the first dates of the season

#187(O Allah, bless our fruit for us, bless our town for us, bless our saAA for us and bless our mudd for us.)(A saAA is equivalent to four mudds and a mudd is equivalent to a dry measure of an average man’s two palms.)