Answer

Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

Dear questioner, thank you very much for having confidence in us, and we hope our efforts, which are purely for Allah’s Sake, meet your expectations.

In the first place, we would like to anchor the basis concept that Islam orders the Muslim to be kind towards all people, whether they are Muslims or non-Muslims. At school, at the market, in your neighborhood, you should deal with all and sundry with due kindness and compassion.

In a show of kindness with your non-Muslim neighbors, you are permitted to share meals with them and to accept their invitation at home as long as there is no pork, wine or any other prohibited food- for a Muslim- is served on the table.

There is nothing wrong in Islam that you accept your neighbors’ invitation to dinner and to share the meal with them as long as the precautions mentioned above are observed.

Allah Almighty knows best.