A worldview approach to the subject of food and eating from an Islamic perspective taking into consideration the prevailing general outlook shared by most people in today’s world. There is an urgent need for more education regarding our beliefs and practices surrounding food. Our future and the survival of our planet may well depend on it.

In the recent wonderful animated film, Over the Hedge, R.J the raccoon utters a profound truth: “For humans, everything is about food!” Food does indeed seem to consume us just as much as we do it—in its absence as strongly as in its presence. We wake up thinking of food (I will eat such and such, but what if it is gone?!!!).

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Abridged from a forthcoming book:
“The Five Pillars of Managing Your Muslim Nonprofit in a Post 9-11 World,” the second edition of "Islamic Perspective on Charity,"which is available @ authorhouse..com

By Khalil Jassemm and Mohamad Chehade

THE COMMITMENT TO RIGHT ACTION

“You [believers] are the best Community ever brought forth for [theood of] humankind: You enjoin what is right. And you forbid what is wrong. And you believe in God.” [3:110]

THE MUSLIM AND THE AMERICAN NONPROFIT

Guiding the human being to right action is, in fact, what the Qur'an is all about. Rendering that right action operational making it happen in the world was precisely the human mission of the Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alayhe wa sallam. It is what his life-model (the prophetic ‘sunnah,' to use the technical Arabic term) preserves for us intact till today. In other words, the Qur'an and the Sunnah are the ‘what' and the ‘how,' respectively, of the religion of Islam. Or, they are the mission, and the method of that mission the method being, in management terms, the conversion of the mission into specifics.When we look at the Qur'an and the life of the Prophet in this way, it makes Islam all about changing the individual in order to change society for the good of humankind. This is exactly what our statement from the Qur'an describes the Muslim communal mission to be.

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