All around the world wasting food is one of the major issues, especially in countries like USA and UAE where more than 40% of food is destroyed while there are many hungry people in these countries and near their borders.
Sheikh Munajjid was asked about this on which he responded that throwing consumable foods is not allowed in Islam rather it should be preserved and eaten later. He also said that the food can be given to needy people.
He mentioned the incident of Prophet (Pbuh) when he saw a date in the road and said that “Were it not that I am afraid that it came from the zakaah, I would have eaten it.”
[junkie-alert style=”green”] There are 460,000 Yemeni children who are nearing death because of malnutrition. In 2012 more than 260,000 Somalian muslims died because of hunger, the situation is still very bad in Somalia and Yemen where millions are in need of food. [/junkie-alert]
So how can we waste our money and food while muslims in these countries have rights on us? If we have excess food than it means we have excess wealth, rather than wasting that we should use it to spend of these muslims who have an obligation on us. A muslim can never waste food knowing that someone else deserves it.