You mentioned that the salutation with the definite article "al" is preferred, so what do we say about His saying, the Exalted: "Their greeting on the day they meet Him is peace" and His saying:

The questioner : Your Eminence, you mentioned, may Allah guide you, that the salutation with "al" is preferred, so what do we say about the saying of Allah, the Exalted, regarding the salutation of the angels to the people of Paradise, and that it was reported in the indefinite form and also ?

The Shaykh : Yes, as for the first, it does not mean that they are told "peace," but rather the meaning is that it is a greeting in which there is peace, and that it makes clear to them that they are safe from every deficiency and from every flaw. As for His saying, the Exalted: , it indicates permissibility. There is a difference between saying that the preferred form is the definite article while the indefinite is permissible, or saying that the obligatory form is the definite article while the indefinite is prohibited. The indefinite is permissible, but the preferred form is the definite article for the reason we mentioned previously. Yes.