What is the prescribed supplication over food?
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Question:
What is the meaning of: "Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said in it what Allah willed him to say" (regarding the food)?
Answer:
It means: he supplicated for blessing in it: May Allah bless the bread, may Allah bless the meat.
Q: Is it taken from that that it is a recommended practice (sunnah) for us to supplicate over food?
A: One should supplicate. If he supplicates and says: O Allah, bless it for us, O Allah, make it blessed; then it is good.
Q: And if he recites the Qur'an: like al-Fatihah and the Verse of the Throne?
A: No, he may supplicate.
What is the meaning of: "Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said in it what Allah willed him to say" (regarding the food)?
Answer:
It means: he supplicated for blessing in it: May Allah bless the bread, may Allah bless the meat.
Q: Is it taken from that that it is a recommended practice (sunnah) for us to supplicate over food?
A: One should supplicate. If he supplicates and says: O Allah, bless it for us, O Allah, make it blessed; then it is good.
Q: And if he recites the Qur'an: like al-Fatihah and the Verse of the Throne?
A: No, he may supplicate.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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