The Meaning of the Salam, and When It Is Performed
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The Shaykh: Welcome, Abu 'Adnan.
The questioner: The hundred of safety.
The Shaykh : How are you?
The questioner: The salam, what is the salam?
The Shaykh: It is one of the names of Allah.
The questioner: No, we have a shaykh who teaches.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: I said to him: Why, when you stand on the pulpit to teach, do you not throw the salam to the public? He said: It is not reported from the Prophet.
The Shaykh : May Allah protect you.
The questioner: When he teaches, he said, the Prophet did not, I said to him: How do you get up on the pulpit and throw the salam?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: He said ... he teaches ... the salam, but ... is there a text on it?
The Shaykh: Is this salam when he is teaching?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Let us see how he was and where he was before he started teaching? Was he in the mosque? Before he sat to teach, did he come from outside or from the mosque?
The questioner: Some days he comes from outside, some days he is sitting among the scholars.
The Shaykh: Yes, here there is no salam in reality.
The questioner: If he stands among the scholars.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: If he comes?
The Shaykh: He has to give the salam.
The questioner: He has to give the salam.
Another questioner : Regarding the greeting, is it obligatory for one who enters to give the greeting?
The Shaykh : He entered.
The questioner : He entered upon us.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It is not obligatory for him to give the greeting.
The Shaykh : What did he do when he entered?
The questioner : He sat down and did not give the greeting.
The Shaykh : Yes, he has committed a sin.
The questioner : Because there is a command from the Messenger of Allah to give the greeting; because there is a widespread belief that giving the greeting is a recommended practice (sunnah) and returning it is obligatory, whereas both contain an obligation.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : But if it is repeated, it is no longer obligatory.
The Shaykh : Its repetition.
The questioner : I mean, he went out and came back, so its repetition...
The Shaykh : No, it is obligatory.
The questioner : So...
The Shaykh : .
The questioner : It is not the repetition upon exiting, but the repetition upon returning. I went out, got the recorder, and came back here.
Another questioner : ... .
The questioner : Here, it becomes a recommended practice (sunnah).
The Shaykh : This is spreading the greeting.
Another questioner : It was reported from Aisha that she said:
Eid Abbasi : The tree, if a space is made between them.
The questioner: The hundred of safety.
The Shaykh : How are you?
The questioner: The salam, what is the salam?
The Shaykh: It is one of the names of Allah.
The questioner: No, we have a shaykh who teaches.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: I said to him: Why, when you stand on the pulpit to teach, do you not throw the salam to the public? He said: It is not reported from the Prophet.
The Shaykh : May Allah protect you.
The questioner: When he teaches, he said, the Prophet did not, I said to him: How do you get up on the pulpit and throw the salam?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: He said ... he teaches ... the salam, but ... is there a text on it?
The Shaykh: Is this salam when he is teaching?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Let us see how he was and where he was before he started teaching? Was he in the mosque? Before he sat to teach, did he come from outside or from the mosque?
The questioner: Some days he comes from outside, some days he is sitting among the scholars.
The Shaykh: Yes, here there is no salam in reality.
The questioner: If he stands among the scholars.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: If he comes?
The Shaykh: He has to give the salam.
The questioner: He has to give the salam.
Another questioner : Regarding the greeting, is it obligatory for one who enters to give the greeting?
The Shaykh : He entered.
The questioner : He entered upon us.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It is not obligatory for him to give the greeting.
The Shaykh : What did he do when he entered?
The questioner : He sat down and did not give the greeting.
The Shaykh : Yes, he has committed a sin.
The questioner : Because there is a command from the Messenger of Allah to give the greeting; because there is a widespread belief that giving the greeting is a recommended practice (sunnah) and returning it is obligatory, whereas both contain an obligation.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : But if it is repeated, it is no longer obligatory.
The Shaykh : Its repetition.
The questioner : I mean, he went out and came back, so its repetition...
The Shaykh : No, it is obligatory.
The questioner : So...
The Shaykh :
If one of you enters a gathering, let him give the greeting, and if he leaves, let him give the greeting, for the first is not more deserving than the second.
إذا دخل أحدكم المجلس فليسلِّم ، وإذا خرج فليسلِّم ، فليست الأولى بأحقَّ من الأخرىThe questioner : It is not the repetition upon exiting, but the repetition upon returning. I went out, got the recorder, and came back here.
Another questioner : ... .
The questioner : Here, it becomes a recommended practice (sunnah).
The Shaykh : This is spreading the greeting.
Another questioner : It was reported from Aisha that she said:
Eid Abbasi : The tree, if a space is made between them.
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