Question: What is the Sunnah way of eating food?

Answer: Sitting on the floor with the right leg upright and left leg lying flat across you. Hold the bread with the left hand and break the bread and eat with the right hand. To break and eat bread (or anything) with just one hand is the practice of the cursed proud people. 

The following acts are Sunnah in ablution:

• Making an intention (niyyah) for obeying Allah Almighty and for the gaining of reward.
• Performing ablution while sitting in a clean place.
• Reciting Bismillah at the beginning of ablution.
• Washing both hands up to the wrists.
• Brushing the teeth with Miswaak
• Rinsing the mouth thrice with water from the hand.
• Rinsing the nose thrice by inhaling water up to the nose bone.
• Using the right hand for inhaling water into the nose.
• Cleaning the nose with the little finger of the left hand.
• Inserting fingers between the spaces in the fingers and toes (to make sure that water passes through it).
• Running all fingers through the beard.
• Performing Masah of the entire head.
• Performing Masah of the ears.
• Maintaining proper order of washing of the different body parts.
• Washing each body part three times each that needs to be washed.
• Washing the following body part before the previous one dries.

Question

Is it permisible to cut your nails after sunset?

Answer

It is permissible to cut nails after sunset. Some of our predecessors have mentioned it may reduce one's provision (Rizq) if one cuts his nails at night. If one's nails have become very big, such person should cut them as soon as possible whether that be in the day or the night.

It is Sunnah to cut nails on a Friday and it is better to avoid cutting nails on a Wednesday as there is a weak Hadith which suggests fear of catching leprosy. Allamah Shahab Al-Deen Al-Khaffaji writes in Naseem Al-Riyadh that a scholar cut his nails on a Wednesday thinking the Hadith is weak. He caught leprosy. Once he saw the Prophet (peace be upon him) in his dreams and the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said to him, "Did my Hadith not reach you?". The scholar replied that he did receive it but found it to be weak. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said, "Is it not enough for you that someone says, The Messenger of Allah said?" and with his blessed hands touched the affected area. The scholar became cured and so he was when he awoke.

And Allah knows best,

Zahid Hussain Al-Qadri
(Beggar at the doorstep of Scholars) 

Sunnah regarding hospitality to guests
Muhammad Abd-al Mannan

O Allāh Almighty! Bless our Lord and Master Sayyidunā Muhammad [may Allāh Almighty bless him and grant him peace] as many times as there are created beings.
Looking after your guests gains you much barakah and reward. Not only will it please the guest but you will also gain satisfaction from amal also. There is no better example for this amal except in the life of the beloved Messenger of Allāh [may Allāh Almighty bless him and grant him peace].

It is up to you to eat
Jabir [may Allāh Almighty be pleased with him] narrates from the Messenger of Allāh [may Allāh Almighty bless him and grant him peace] that, Whoever is invited to a meal accept it, whether you desire to eat or not is your choice. [Imām Muslim's, Sahih]
If you are not hungry it does not mean you don't attend, but it will please the host if you at least attend but are you are not obliged to eat.

Respect your guest
Abu Hurayrah [may Allāh Almighty be pleased with him] narrates from the Messenger of Allāh [may Allāh Almighty bless him and grant him peace], Whosoever believes in Allah, The Exalted, and the day of resurrection should respect his guest. [Imām Nawawī's, Riyādh us Salihīn]
To look after also means to respect them and make sure they are happy and making sure you fulfil their needs.

Look after your guest
Abu Lahoos Jismi [may Allāh Almighty be pleased with him] narrates from his father, he says, 'I asked the beloved Messenger of Allah [may Allāh Almighty bless him and grant him peace] I went to a person's house [as a guest] and he did not look after me, he has now come to my house, shall I look after him or treat him as he treated me?' The beloved Messenger of Allah [may Allāh Almighty bless him and grant him peace] replied, Look after him.
This is the beautiful and blessed character of Allah's Beloved Messenger [may Allāh Almighty bless him and grant him peace], may Allāh Almighty give us a drop of the character of his beloved, Ameen! 

See the guest to the door
Abu Hurayrah [may Allāh Almighty be pleased with him] narrates from the Messenger of Allah [may Allāh Almighty bless him and grant him peace] that, The Sunnah is this, that you see your guest to the door. [Reported by Ibn Majah]
Abu Hurayrah [may Allāh Almighty be pleased with him] has related that the Messenger of Allah [may Allāh Almighty bless him and grant him peace] said, One should welcome his guest by coming out of his door and while bidding farewell should accompany him to the door of the house. [Reported by al-Bayhaqī and Ibn Majah]

You will not be called to account
Jafar bin Muhammad Sādiq [may Allāh Almighty be pleased with him] states that, When you eat with your brothers and friends on a floor mat, do not rush as this is the time that will not be accounted for.
Hasan Basrī [may Allāh Almighty be pleased with him] states that, Whatever a person eats and drinks and feeds his mother and father, will be accounted for, except for food eaten with friends.
Glory be to Almighty Allāh! We learn that to have food with friends is a greatly rewarded act and love will increase between the Muslim communities.
'Ali [may Allāh Almighty be pleased with him] states that, To put food in front of brothers, to me is better than to set a slave free.
In a blessed hadîth it has been stated that there three times when one will not account for his deeds in front of Allāh Almighty the first is he who makes sehrī [meal consumed early in the morning by Muslims before fasting], the second he who makes iftār and third the one who eats with friends.