Beginning and ending a meal with salt

Question

If there are various foods on the dining cloth, for example sweets and salty dishes, what should one begin with and what should one end with? Please explain the sunna way; let the answer to each be written with a reference.

Answer

One should begin with something salty and end with something salty: [ar]من السنة أن يبدأ بالملح ويختم بالملح[/ar] “It is of the sunna to begin with salt and to end with salt” (“‘Alamgiri”).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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