Zakir Naik – Non Islamic Greetings
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The speaker discusses various types of greetings in English, including greetings for school students, greetings for friends, and even greetings for family members. They also mention a common form of greeting, " sal greetings" that is used more often in between conversations, and explain that the meaning of "slack greetings" is used more often in between conversations. The speaker suggests that the meaning of "slack greetings" may change in a revised edition of the Oxford advised book.AI: Transcript ©
Let's analyze
the various types of greetings that we have
in the society.
And the most common
of all the greetings
in English,
we say,
good morning.
In Africanas,
people say,
In Chinese, In
most of the languages,
it's a very common greeting. Good morning.
And suppose
it's rainy day,
it's raining cats and dogs.
And if someone wishes you good morning,
what is so good about that morning? It's
raining cats and dogs.
The city started,
and you have to say good morning. What
is so good about that morning?
And when we go to school,
and if you are studying in English school,
every
period
in the beginning
of the day, in the morning,
when the teacher enters,
all the students wish the teacher,
good morning, sir. It's compulsory.
And maybe the teacher,
before he left his house, maybe
he had
a fight with his wife early in the
morning.
He may be cursing that morning
in his heart.
He may be praying that never should such
a morning ever come in his life. But
in spite of this, when the students wish,
good morning, sir, he has to reply, good
morning.
Even though from the depth of his heart,
he may never wish that such a morning
should come again, yet he replies by good
morning. What is so good about that morning
in which a person has a fight with
his spouse?
The best form of greeting
is the sound greeting.
Assalamu alaikum.
May peace be on you. Irrespective whether it's
a rainy day, whether it's raining cats and
dogs, whether you had a fight with your
spouse
or with your friend,
yet the greeting
may peace be on you, is the most
appropriate.
We have another form of greeting, especially among
the young people
who go to schools and colleges.
When they wish their friend, they say hi.
And if
a young friend
wishes to a friend across the street, hi,
The friend will reply, hi.
And when you ask him, what is the
meaning of hi?
No 1 will be able to reply.
What is the meaning of high?
No 1 will be able to reply.
In Hindi, they're the local language
out here. Hi
is a form of disgust. You know, hi.
In English,
with HIGH, high means something which is on
a height.
And another meaning
of high is a slang word for a
person who's intoxicated,
and people say, I went to the party,
and I got high. I got drunk. I
got intoxicated.
Is it a courteous greeting?
In fact, I say it is not a
greeting at all.
Leave aside it being a courteous greeting. Hi
is not a greeting at all.
The other common greeting,
which most of us use,
is hello.
And
if we look up in the Oxford dictionary,
the meaning of hello, it says,
an informal
greeting.
And the other meaning given
in the dictionary is
that
to begin
a telephone conversation,
to begin a talk, to start a talk
on the telephone,
Do you know how did
this idea come about? That to start a
telephone conversation, you should say, hello.
The person who invented the telephone
was sir Alexander Graham Bell.
And once, when he was leaving his house,
in a hurry,
the bell
rang. And to initiate an early response, he
said, hello.
So that he can greet the person, and
the person responds fast, and he can go
out of the house
soon.
This word hello
to start a telephonic conversation
has stuck since that time, and even today,
everyone uses it. You use it, and even
I use it.
Hello to start a telephone conversation.
But nowadays,
especially in Bombay,
thanks to the MTNL,
that the word hello is used more often
in between a conversation. Because when the sound
goes low, it's hello. Can you hear me?
Hello.
Oxford dictionary says, hello is used to start
a telephone conversation.
But in Bombay,
it's used more in between the talk than
the beginning of the talk.
And since the time the mobile has been
invented,
and
when
the area of reception is not very clear,
you have to use the word hello even
in between the telephone conversation. So maybe in
the revised edition of Oxford Dictionary,
they may change the meaning. Hello can also
be used in between a telephonic conversation.
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