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Is the priority to honor one's parents or to preserve blessings when a mother asks for the seeds to be removed from a cucumber in food, and is peeling fruits like apples and cucumbers considered a waste of blessings?

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Wasting blessings occurs by disrespecting them or destroying them, such as discarding cucumber seeds and apple peels, which have nutritional and medicinal value. Allah has commanded us to be grateful for blessings and has forbidden wasting them if they can be utilized. Evidence from the Quran and Sunnah confirms human responsibility for their blessings, including the command to be grateful for blessings, the prohibition of extravagance and squandering, the command to pick up a fallen morsel, lick fingers, and honor bread, and the prohibition of wasting money and cleaning oneself with bones. Merely extracting cucumber seeds or peeling apples is not considered waste; rather, waste occurs by destroying them, leaving them to spoil, or throwing them into landfills. What the mother dislikes should not be put in her food, while still benefiting from the blessings in other ways.

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