[15].Surah Al-Hjir [The Rocky Tract]: Ayat 21-22

Ayat 21. And there is not a thing, but with Us are the stores thereof. And We send it not down except in a known measure.

Ayat 22. And We send the winds fertilizing (to fill heavily the clouds with water), then caused the water (rain) to descend from the sky, and We gave it to you to drink, and it is not you who are the owners of its stores [i.e. to give water to whom you like or to withhold it from whom you like]. 

 

Hazrat Anas bin Malik (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: Messenger of Allah  [SAWW](PBUH) said, "Allah is pleased with His slave who eats a meal and praises Him for it; and takes a drink and praises Him for it". [Muslim Book.35, Chapter 23, Hadith # 6592]. 

Lesson : as mentioned above in Surah Al-Hjir Ayat 22. "We send it not down except in a known measure." One should always say "Al-hamdu lillah'' (all the praise and thanks be to Allah) after food and drink. This Hadith holds fear as well as hope. If one remembers Allah in the meals, he can hope for the Pleasure of Allah. One should also bear in mind that it is He who gives everything. If He likes, He can forfeit all those things or in spite of providing all the riches, deprive one of hunger and thirst, as it does happen in certain diseases. May Allah protect us from such deprivations.