Virtues of a Halāl Morsel

Virtues of a Halāl Morsel

There are many blessings for us in eating according to the Sunnah of the Beloved of Allah şallAllāhu álayhi wa sallam.

Sayyidunā Imām Muhammad Ghazālī rađiyAllāhu ánhu, in his second volume of Ihyā’ Ul-‘Ulūm cites the following aphorism attributed to a pious predecessor:

When a Muslim eats the first morsel of Halal [Lawful] food, he is absolved of the sins he committed in the past. [Furthermore] the one who visits a place of humiliation[1] in search of Halal [Lawful] food, his sins fall like leaves fall from a tree. [Ihyā’ Ul-‘Ulūm, vol. 2, pp. 116]

[1] A place that is normally considered inferior in rank