{"id":3359,"date":"2016-07-21T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2016-07-21T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T19:20:11","slug":"is-it-allowed-to-initiate-other-than-the-greetings-of-peace-to-a-disbeliever-shaikh-al-albani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/?p=3359","title":{"rendered":"Is it Allowed to Initiate Other Than the Greetings of Peace to a Disbeliever? – Shaikh al-Albani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shaikh al-Albani rahimahullah said:<\/p>\n

“If it is said: is it allowed to to initiate other than the greeting of peace with a disbeliever? For example: ‘How are you this morning’ or ‘How are you this evening’ or ‘How are you’ and the likes. Then I say: that which is apparent to me, and Allah knows best, is that it is allowed because the prohibition mentioned in the Hadith [Muslim no. 2167] is only for salam. In general, what is only intended [by the Hadith] is the Islamic greeting which includes the Name of Allah, the Exalted. As comes in the statement of the Prophet(\ufdfa):<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0633\u0645 \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0633\u0645\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0648\u0636\u0639\u0647 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0631\u0636 \u0641\u0623\u0641\u0634\u0648\u0647 \u0628\u064a\u0646\u0647\u0645<\/strong><\/p>\n

As-Salam (peace) is one of the Names of Allah Almighty which Allah has placed in the earth. Therefore spread the greeting among yourselves. Reported by Bukhari in Adab al-Mufrad (no. 989) and it will come [in as-Saheeha] no. 1894.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What supports what I have mentioned is the statement of ‘Alqamah: “Verily Abdullah (that is: Ibn Mas’ud) used to give greetings to the Persian businessmen with a gesture. Reported by Bukhari (no. 1104) and he gave the chapter title for it: A person greeting a dhimmi with a gesture. Its chain is Saheeh. So Ibn Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) allowed initiating greetings with a gesture because it is not a greeting specific to Muslims. Likewise, it is allowed to greet them [the non-Muslims] with the likes of what I mentioned of wordings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As for what was mentioned in some books of the Hanaabilah like ad-Daleel, that it is prohibited to also initiate the greetings [saying]: ‘How are you this morning or evening’ or ‘how are you’, then I do not know of an evidence for that from the Sunnah…<\/strong>” [Silsilatus-Saheeha (no. 704) 2\/318]<\/p>\n

He also said rahimahullah:<\/p>\n

“…If it is necessary for you to initiate and you say to him: ‘Good morning’ or ‘Good evening’, then this is the exiting point [from this issue] and the subject of giving salam to the disbeliever ends…”\u00a0<\/strong>[Silsilatul-Huda wan-Nur (no. 50)]<\/p>\n

Translated by<\/p>\n

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
\nAbu Sulaymaan<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shaikh al-Albani rahimahullah said: “If it is said: is it allowed to to initiate other than the greeting of peace with a disbeliever? For example: ‘How are you this morning’ or ‘How are you this evening’ or ‘How are you’ and the likes. Then I say: that which is apparent to me, and Allah knows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/3359"}],"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=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3361,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darussaafi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}