Mufti Menk – Say Salaam and Greet Each Other

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?