Can man and women

[Sara516]

Re: Can man and women

@rizla86

Interesting, I never knew non-mehrams can’t drink from the same glass. Never really thought about it before.

Well it makes sense to me, you have to be really close to someone to eat from the same plate/same glass and you’re not supposed to be close to a na-mehram anyway, right?

@TLK

Historically, Arabs used to eat from the same platter (many Arab families still do that). So when a family was sitting together, they sat around a big platter and ate from it. That is the reason we have the hadees that when you eat, eat from your side of the plate and eat from the food that is in front of you.

So answer to the OP’s question is that its not only permitted, its a sunnat.

I didn’t know it was a hadith as well…that’s pretty cool. My husband doesn’t like to do that and will not even drink/eat from the same glass/plate as me…on the other hand, it was pretty common for me and my parents to eat from one…it doesn’t bother me either way..

This reminds me of two incidents, one when I was with my parents in Pakistan we’d just moved into the house and didn’t have dishes yet, we 3 had breakfast from the same plate..just kept taking turns.
When I was in Pakistan most recently, I was at a wedding where plates and glasses and spoons had run out, so I shared my glass/spoon/fork with relatives/cousins. sounds gross but it was kinda funnny