Did the Prophet eat at a table, and what was its height from the ground? And is eating at one considered arrogance, even with the correct posture?
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The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, did not eat from a khawan (a raised platform with legs) nor from a high table. Rather, he would eat on a sufra or similar spread laid out on the ground. The khawan is an innovation introduced by non-Arabs, unlike the ma'ida and sufra, which are spreads for food. The Prophet's prohibition of eating from a khawan was because it was the practice of kings or the extravagant. Some scholars have inferred from his not doing so that eating from a khawan is disliked.
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