Is Making Playdough with Flour Wastage and Disrespect of Food?

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel

Question

Is making playdough with flour wastage and disrespect of food?

Answer

I pray you are well.

There is nothing wrong making playdough with homemade flour and children playing with it. However, after the children finish playing with it, allow it to dry and give it to animals and birds to feed on. Also, if one cannot do this, one can put it for compost to be used again as a fertilizer. This way you have not disrespected food, or wasted it, but made use of it.

Allah (Most High) says in the Quran, ‘And do not be extravagant; verily, the extravagant are the brethren of devils’ (Quran, 17:26–7), as well as ‘Eat and drink, but do not be wasteful. Verily, Allah loves not the wasters’ (Quran, 7:31).

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[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
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Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied within UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan and Turkey.

He started his early education in UK. He went onto complete hifz of Qur’an in India, then enrolled into an Islamic seminary in UK where he studied the secular and Alimiyyah sciences. He then travelled to Karachi, Pakistan.

He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for a number of years. He has taught hifz of the Qur’an, Tajwid, Fiqh and many other Islamic sciences to both children and adults onsite and online extensively in UK and Ireland. He was teaching at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences.

He currently resides in UK with his wife. His personal interest is love of books and gardening.