can we eat with non-muslims?

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Re: can we eat with non-muslims?

@tariqlkhan

I never heard of that. One can eat with them, use their plates and glasses and forks as they should all clean and you will be picking up halal food (if that is the concern) anyway (means fish and veggie and what not).

Prophet Mohammed:saw: excepted the invitation of a Yahoodi aurat and ate at her place, after the battle of Khyber.

That is another thing that she tried to posioned him but that is unrelated to what you asked

I was going to say that as well, the Prophet :saw: accepted the invitation of the Jewish woman who tried to poison him… Although whether the food was ate at her house with her menfolk or sent to the Prophet’s :saw: place, I don’t know…

Another incident which comes to mind is when the Prophet :saw: announced the Religion of God to his relatives he invited them to a banquet, the occasion when 'Ali /:as: was the first amongst them to stand up and embrace Islaam.

Also we’re allowed to marry women from the People of (previous) Scripture (Christian and Jewish) so obviously we Muslims’ll be eating with them if they’re our wives or mothers…

As long as the food is not Haraam I don’t think there is anything wrong. I don’t know why we like to invent rules and make things hard, we’re not Jews, I know some strict Jews don’t like eating with Goyim but I don’t know of such laws in Islaam.