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Eating, drinking and fasting

Before and after eating, breaking the fast, and thanking a host.

Invocations before eating

إِذَا أَكَلَ أَحَدُكُمْ طَعَاماً فَلْيَقُلْ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ، فَإِنْ نَسِيَ فِي أَوَّلِهِ فَلْيَقُلْ بسمِ اللَّهِ فِي أَوَّلِهِ وَآخِرِهِ

When 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):Bismil-lahi fee awwalihi wa-akhirih.

When 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.

مَنْ أَطْعَمَهُ اللَّهُ الطَّعَامَ فَلْيَقُلْ: اللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ لَنَا فِيهِ وَأَطْعِمْنَا خَيْراً مِنْهُ، وَمَنْ سَقَاهُ اللَّهُ لَبَناً فَلْيَقُلْ اللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ لَنَا فِيهِ وَزِدْنَا مِنْهُ

Whomever Allah feeds, should say:(Allahumma barik lana feehi wa-atAAimna khayran minh.) and whomever Allah gives milk to drink should say:(Allahumma barik lana feehi wazidna minh.)

Whomever 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

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَطْعَمَنِي هَذَا، وَرَزَقَنِيهِ، مِنْ غَيْرِ حَوْلٍ مِنِّي وَلاَ قُوَّةٍ

Alhamdu lillahil-lathee atAAamanee hatha warazaqaneehi min ghayri hawlin minnee wala quwwah.

All praise is for Allah who fed me this and provided it for me without any might nor power from myself.

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ حَمْداً كَثِيراً طَيِّباً مُبَارَكاً فِيهِ، غَيْرَ [مَكْفِيٍّ وَلاَ ] مُوَدَّعٍ، وَلاَ مُسْتَغْنَىً عَنْهُ رَبَّنَا

Alhamdu lillahi hamdan katheeran tayyiban mubarakan feeh, ghayra makfiyyin wala muwaddaAAin, wala mustaghnan AAanhu rabbuna.

Allah 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.)(There are other views as regards to the understanding of this supplication, from them: Allah be praised with an abundant beautiful blessed praise. He is The One Who is sufficient, feeds and is not fed. The One Who is longed for, along with that which is with Him and The One Who is needed, He is our Lord.

Invocations for breaking the fast

ذَهَبَ الظَّمَأُ وَابْتَلَّتِ العُرُوقُ، وَثَبَتَ الْأَجْرُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ

Thahabath-thama-o wabtallatil-AAurooq, wathabatal-ajru in shaal-lah.

The thirst has gone and the veins are quenched, and reward is confirmed, if Allah wills.

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِرَحْمَتِكَ الَّتِي وَسِعَتْ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ أَنْ تَغْفِرَ لِي

Allahumma inne as-aluka birahmatikal-latee wasiAAat kulla shay, an taghfira lee.

O Allah, I ask You by Your mercy which envelopes all things, that You forgive me.

A dinner guest's invocation for his host

اللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ لَهُمْ فِيمَا رَزَقْتَهُم، وَاغْفِرْ لَهُمْ وَارْحَمْهُمْ

Allahumma barik lahum feema razaqtahum, waghfir lahum warhamhum.

O 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

اللَّهُمَّ أَطْعِمْ مَنْ أَطْعَمَنِي، وَاسْقِ مَنْ سَقَانِي

Allahumma atAAim man atAAamanee wasqi man saqanee.

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

Supplications, transliteration, English meaning and audio: Hisn al-Muslim (Fortress of the Muslim) by Sa‘id ibn Ali ibn Wahf al-Qahtani. We copy them exactly and never write our own.

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