How do we reconcile the hadith: (No one eats your food except a righteous person)
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The questioner : ... between the two hadiths: Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2395Sahih (Darussalam).
The Shaykh : .
The questioner:, and that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), I mean, people used to eat from his food, or most of the Companions used to eat from his food, any one of the people, and some of them might have been disbelieving Jews and ...?
The Shaykh: Yes, but I felt that at first I mentioned the Messenger.
The questioner: Yes, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: His Companions ...
The questioner: No, it is the same thing on both sides; the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and the Companions.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner: It is possible that he hosted a Jew or a polytheist or ...
The Shaykh: In any case, the answer, my brother, is clear; and it is:Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2395Sahih (Darussalam) This does not negate that sometimes a non-righteous person may eat your food; because the non-righteous person must be drawn to righteousness and goodness. And as they say in our region of Sham: "Taste the dates, and the eye will be shy"; meaning, or as the poet said:
"Be kind to people, and you will enslave their hearts *** For as long as a person is enslaved by kindness"
So feeding people is part of honoring them. If a person does this with some of the deviant people with this intention, and if he eats the food of the deviant people with this intention, we are often asked, for example, that so-and-so is a usurer, and he invites us to a gathering; do we accept his invitation or not? I say: It is up to you and your intention. If your intention is only to fill your stomach, then no; stay away from him. If your intention is to take that as an opportunity and a means to put some words in his mind and intellect that indicate the error of his work, then there is no obstacle to this at all. And with this, we can explain the acceptance by the Messenger (peace be upon him) of gifts from some disbelievers at times; even though the original ruling is not to accept them; where he said (peace be upon him):; meaning their gifts. So this is like the hadith meaning: Sunan al-Bayhaqi 10:1836. The opposite of this must be the Muslim; no one eats his food except a righteous person; meaning this must be his habit.
And look, you will find now that this meaning is not realized in the extravagant people; they invite in complete contradiction to this hadith; they leave the righteous ones and do not share with them or feed them, and so on, unlike the good and righteous people. It is supposed that their invitations should be mostly for the righteous ones, but that does not mean that they prevent the others from their support and their good, if it is with the aforementioned intention. And glory be to You, O Allah, and praise be to You ...
and do not serve your food except to one with Taqwa.
لا يأكل طعامك إلا تقيٌّThe Shaykh :
Your food
طعامَكThe questioner:
No one eats your food except a righteous person
طعامَك إلا تقيٌّThe Shaykh: Yes, but I felt that at first I mentioned the Messenger.
The questioner: Yes, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: His Companions ...
The questioner: No, it is the same thing on both sides; the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and the Companions.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner: It is possible that he hosted a Jew or a polytheist or ...
The Shaykh: In any case, the answer, my brother, is clear; and it is:
and do not serve your food except to one with Taqwa.
لا يأكل طعامَك إلا تقيٌّ"Be kind to people, and you will enslave their hearts *** For as long as a person is enslaved by kindness"
So feeding people is part of honoring them. If a person does this with some of the deviant people with this intention, and if he eats the food of the deviant people with this intention, we are often asked, for example, that so-and-so is a usurer, and he invites us to a gathering; do we accept his invitation or not? I say: It is up to you and your intention. If your intention is only to fill your stomach, then no; stay away from him. If your intention is to take that as an opportunity and a means to put some words in his mind and intellect that indicate the error of his work, then there is no obstacle to this at all. And with this, we can explain the acceptance by the Messenger (peace be upon him) of gifts from some disbelievers at times; even though the original ruling is not to accept them; where he said (peace be upon him):
I do not accept the gifts of the polytheists
إني لا أقبل رَبَذَ المشركينThe worst food is the food of the wedding feast, to which the rich are invited and the poor are left out
شرُّ الطعام طعام الوليمة يُدعى إليها الأغنياء ويُترك عنها الفقراءAnd look, you will find now that this meaning is not realized in the extravagant people; they invite in complete contradiction to this hadith; they leave the righteous ones and do not share with them or feed them, and so on, unlike the good and righteous people. It is supposed that their invitations should be mostly for the righteous ones, but that does not mean that they prevent the others from their support and their good, if it is with the aforementioned intention. And glory be to You, O Allah, and praise be to You ...
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