Mufti Menk – Say Salaam and Greet Each Other
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The speaker discusses the difficulty of not greeting each other and the need for face-to-face interactions. They also talk about the idea of being "ramong" and share that they are not a Muslim, which is a way of achieving closeness to their creator. The speaker emphasizes that greetings are not a fundamental act of worship.
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I tell you 1 difficulty
that we have in this Ummah at the
moment.
We don't greet each other. No greeting whatsoever.
No salaam.
Unless you know the person or you want
something from them, or perhaps they're wealthy or
authority or popular or whatever else. Otherwise, there's
no greeting. No. We have these faces that
are all screwed up literally,
you know. Astaghfirullah.
And what happens? You look at the other
person, you look away and you're gone, But
you're a Muslim. You're a Muslim. Learn to
greet. I tell you,
I've seen
non Muslims do better than us.
Wallahi, I'm not joking.
Morning, sir. They will tell you as they
pass you. Morning, ma'am. Good afternoon. They will
tell you. Hi.
How are you doing? Fine. You hear all
these words, SubhanAllah, coming from whom? Non Muslims.
They greet
you. But you're a Muslim, you can't greet
a fellow Muslim. You can't even greet others.
No 1. I'm just there. I'm my own
person. Dry, cold. That's it. It's me. Do
you know that by greeting someone, you're actually
engaging in a huge act of worship? You're
achieving closeness to your Maker because you share
the same creator. Why do we call ourselves
brothers and sisters?
Because firstly, it's in humanity.
We have the same creator.
We have the same forefathers.
And thereafter,
if you still share the same faith, you've
got even more in common. What we do
today?