What is the ruling on initiating the greeting and responding to it?
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The questioner : What is the ruling on initiating the greeting and responding to it?
The Shaykh : Initiating the greeting is a confirmed sunnah (recommended practice).
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And the best of people are those who initiate the greeting with others. As for responding, it is obligatory for the one who is greeted to respond. However, if a group is greeted, it is sufficient for one of them to respond. That is, according to the scholars, responding is a collective obligation (fard kifayah), not an individual obligation (fard 'ayn).
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : This is a message sent by the listener Abdullah Yasin Abd al-Jalil al-'Arawsi from the Yemen Arab Republic. His message contained four questions.
The Shaykh : Initiating the greeting is a confirmed sunnah (recommended practice).
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And the best of people are those who initiate the greeting with others. As for responding, it is obligatory for the one who is greeted to respond. However, if a group is greeted, it is sufficient for one of them to respond. That is, according to the scholars, responding is a collective obligation (fard kifayah), not an individual obligation (fard 'ayn).
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : This is a message sent by the listener Abdullah Yasin Abd al-Jalil al-'Arawsi from the Yemen Arab Republic. His message contained four questions.