The Four Recommended Practices

(Excerpted from Futuwat namah by Khwaja Husayn Wa’iz Kashifi Sabzawari An Naqshbandi Translated by M. Nur Abdussalam)

If asked: What are the four recommended practices? Say: 

1.      To begin with salt

2.      To finish with salt

3.      To eat on a dining cloth spread on the ground, not on a table

4.      To give morsels to the servant whenever he does not sit with those being served