Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

something to people sitting beside you, you should begin with the
one sitting immediately on your right, thereafter continuing with
the one sitting on that person’s right, and so forth. A person sitting
on the left may be given priority with the permission of the one
sitting on the right. It is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf: “If a person is
gravely sinful, let him serve water to people.”
It was from (the archangel) Jebrâîl that our Master, the blessed
Prophet, learned how to cook herîsa, or keshkek (wheat boild with
meat) ‘alaihim-as-salâm’. Herîsa is a very rich source of energy.
All Prophets ‘alahim-us-salâm’ ate bread of barley. Rasûlullah
‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ liked sweets made from winter
squash, lentil soup, game, and mutton. He preferred front leg and
breast and shoulder of mutton. He liked shoulder of kid. Kid is
easy to digest. It is suitable for anybody. Meat from a male animal
is more digestible than that of a female animal, and dark meat is
more digestible than white meat. With respect to digestibility and
flavour, mutton is better than beef, yet cow’s milk is better than
sheep’s milk. Meat of deer is the best game. Rabbit’s meat is halâl.
It has a diuretic effect, but too much of it causes insomnia. It is
suitable food for anybody. Chicken and meat of other fowls is
good for anybody. Of all domestic fowls, hen’s meat is the best.
Vinegar is the most useful food. Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi
wa sallam’ stated: “What a beautiful kind of food vinegar is!”
Dates make a (good) meal, too. That is, they can be eaten with
bread. Grapes, fruit as they are, will make a (good) meal, too. It is
sunnat to eat grapes with bread. It is sunnat to eat dates one by
one. It is sunnat to eat currants, walnuts, almonds. Honey has
curative power. Seventy Prophets ‘alaihim-us-salâm’ invoked a
blessing on honey so that it would have barakat. Rasûl ‘alaihissalâm’
loved dates. He would dates and melon or watermelon
together. Melon and watermelon cleanse the kidneys and diminish
headaches. They help pass worms. They give strength to the eyes.
He ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ loved cool sherbets. When
eating rice, the prayer called ‘salawât’ should be said. There is a
hadîth-i-sherîf commending to eat broad beans with their outer
covers. He ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated that habba-tussevdâ,
or shûniz [black cumins] is curative for various illnesses.
It is curative to eat walnuts with cheese. It is harmful to eat them
separately. Each of them should be eaten with something else, (or
both of them at the same time.) Grape seeds are harmful. He ‘sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ would hold the bunch of grapes with his
left hand and eat the grapes with his right hand. Quinces, (whn
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