Mufti Menk – How To Greet Someone With Manners
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The speaker discusses the importance of being greeted with a quranic or a statement of war, and how it can be used to grant acceptance. They also mention a woman who prayed for peace and was given a powerful greeting, but was corrected by a subsequent woman. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being genuine and not giving a false impression.AI: Transcript ©
To be able to greet
is an islamic teaching. To be able to
respond to a greeting
is a quranic injunction. You have to. Someone
says, assalamu alaykum. You like it or you
don't like it, you have to say, Waalaikumus
salam. The minimum.
You like it or you don't like it,
you have to say, Waalaikumus salam. The minimum.
May Allah grant us acceptance.
Why?
Why do we say that's the minimum? The
minimum because
someone made a prayer for you, may peace
be upon you. Wow,
what an amazing way of greeting people. May
peace
be upon you. I'm in search of peace.
So are you. May peace be upon you.
Assalam.
All types of peace. I pray that you
have good health, I pray that you have
contentment, I pray that everything goes good for
you, you have a good job, I pray
that you you know, sustenance from Allah, your
worries are taken care of by Allah, difficulty
is taken away from you, and so and
so much more. I pray for that, and
the blessings and the mercy of Allah upon
you. That's a Muslim when I'm just saying,
Hi.
That's what it
is. That's the reason why I won't say
hi and bye. I start off with assalamu
alaikum.
It's our way of greeting.
Powerful. And when someone says all of that
to you,
I mean what is peace?
Peace extends all the way to the hereafter.
May peace be upon you on the day
of judgement. Why not?
Assalamu alaikum.
I say,
you should feel that it should hit you.
I am so happy. Someone prayed for me.
I remember there was a brother who didn't
reply and I told him, why didn't you
reply to that guy? He's an enemy man.
He's lying. He said, just say,
what's the big deal? What did you lose?
So what if they're lying? He says, but
but then I'll be lying as well.
I said, well don't lie. Try and make
yourself genuine. Who knows? The dua might be
accepted. Imagine someone hating you saying, may Allah
bless you.
Come on, come on.
You know, you gotta he's gotta just say,
Amin, and that's it. But
you have to reply back. Imagine when someone
gives you such a powerful greeting every day.
Do you know, you look back at the
predecessors.
If they were walking and the wall came
between them for a moment, when they met
back after the wall they would say, salamalaykum.
Do you know that?
Go and read the stories.
The companions used to greet each other like,
subhanallah you won't believe it. We just came
back. Salaam Alaikum. I just came back again.
Salaam Alaikum.
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