BEHAVIORS THAT ARE SUNNAT

Before meals hands (washed) are not wiped dry. They must be dried with a cloth towel when they are washed after meals. As hands are being washed before meals, it is not sunnat to wash mouth, too. However, it is makrûh for a junub person, (i.e. for a person who needs to make a ghusl, [1] ) to eat without washing their mouth before, whereas it is not makrûh for a menstruating woman to do so. It is makrûh to put a salt-shaker or dishes on bread or to wipe hands or knives with pieces of bread. It will not be makrûh if the piece of bread are eaten after use. It is permissible to lean on something as you sit or to eat bare-headed. [2] It is isrâf to eat the inner part of bread and leave the outer cover or to eat the well-cooked part, leaving the rest. It will not be isrâf if the remainder is eaten by someone else or animals are fed with it. Eating from one side of the dish, eating from the side closest to you, and sitting on your left foot with your right knee set upright (like in squatting) are behaviors that are sunnat. It is permissible to eat from the middle part of a dish containing various kinds of fruit. [Yet it still is not permissible to take the fruit that is before someone else.] Very hot things should not be eaten or smelled.