{"id":2174,"date":"2015-11-02T23:58:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T04:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darussaafi.wordpress.com\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2015-11-02T23:58:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T04:58:04","slug":"the-ruling-on-giving-greetings-to-a-person-whom-it-is-not-clear-whether-he-is-a-muslim-or-disbeliever-shaikh-zayd-al-madkhali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/?p=2174","title":{"rendered":"The Ruling on Giving Greetings to A Person Whom It is Not Clear Whether He is a Muslim or Disbeliever &#8211; Shaikh Zayd al-Madkhali"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><strong>Question<\/strong>: The questioner from Emirates says: sometimes we cannot differentiate between the disbelievers and Muslims in their form\u00a0and appearance. So how is the greetings and Salams given to them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer<\/strong>: &#8220;According to the ability of a person. And there is no sin if \u00a0a person gives greetings to a disbeliever mistaking him for a Muslim. And being certain is a desirable affair which is is desired from a Muslim by the Legislation in all his actions. So it is necessary he is certain such that he does not give the greeting of Islam to a disbeliever who does not want it nor wants Islam&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/aivbqdtaxngh4hrwof9z7ckcifb88oa9\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Translated by<\/p>\n<p>Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan<\/p>\n<p>Abu Sulaymaan<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: The questioner from Emirates says: sometimes we cannot differentiate between the disbelievers and Muslims in their form\u00a0and appearance. So how is the greetings and Salams given to them? Answer: &#8220;According to the ability of a person. And there is no sin if \u00a0a person gives greetings to a disbeliever mistaking him for a Muslim. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}