Greed for foods and drinks

Dear Islamic sisters! Remember! The way the greed for wealth is destroying our society like a termite, similarly, the greed for foods and drinks is also found everywhere.  Whether it is a child or an adult, young man or old man, man or woman, a poor man or a rich man, in short, the greed for foods and drinks has attracted everyone. People are busy buying food from the market along with different types of diseases. Everywhere foods and drinks are being bought with great excitement. This is the age of ‘food culture’. There are many hotels, restaurants and fast food shops in every area. Everywhere we can see the stalls of spicy and junk food items. There are a large number of shops selling enormous types of sweet dishes. There are many consumers who buy food just to satisfy their Nafs (desire) – hoarding up and devouring everything they get. Such sights are common especially in the wedding ceremony and Valimah ceremony etc. As the feast starts, the people who are greedy for food and drink fall on the food and drink in such a way as angry beasts of prey attack their prey. Before eating, people do not recite بِسْمِ اللّٰہ and the Du’a of eating food let alone washing hands. By seeing such people it seems like the last meal of their life. After this they will never be able to eat such a nice and delicious meal throughout their life. Since a greedy person is overpowered by the fear that the food may finish or may be short, he fills his plate more than his need, thus wasting plenty of food. He gobbles food down without chewing properly and then later on visits doctors and Hakeems. Alas! We are so much overpowered by the greed for food that we neither worry about worldly loss, nor about offering Salah, observing fasts, nor about the mindset of spending for righteous deeds, nor for caring poor and nor for the accountability of the Hereafter. One who is greedy for food only wishes to eat, eat and only continues to eat. That’s why today from everywhere we hear people saying:

Eat, drink and be merry

Dear Islamic sisters! Remember! Whether it is an ordinary roti or delicious food but once they enter our stomach they all are mixed. As the morsel goes down our throat its taste remains no more. Eating whatever comes to our hand and eating a lot bring about countless worldly and Hereafter