it is legal so its ok no butthurt

what's wrong with saying 'salam sejahtera ke atas kamu juga' to another?

some body already explain in previous page

nvm..

This post has been edited by Azer96: Dec 4 2011, 09:45 PM

gua salah, lu mai kong....

There is nothing wrong. It just that maybe the muslim who give u bad looks when u reply the greeting didn't know the true meanings of the greeting itself.

Assalamualaikum = Peace be with you
Wa'alaikumsalam = And unto you peace

See? actually the above greeting is not only special for Muslim. Its applicable to all nations or religions. It just that its in different language.

Its not wrong for a non muslim to say salam to a muslim. Muslims have to reply to that. Albeit if a muslim wanna greet a non muslim, its preferable to use other phrase even though the ruling isn't haram to say salam.

If you are very particular with language, then do this. In the sense of linguistic, due to the "Al / As" referring to a Proper Noun which in this case As-Salam refers to the name of God, then omit the As / Al. Then you will have "peace be upon you" and not "Peace be upon you"

Although for me I don't see anything wrong with using As-Salam as a Proper Noun, because when I say that to a non-muslim, I can think of it as "may God be with you and open up your heart to Islam".

Thats just my 2cents though.

isnt assalamualaikum = salam sejahtera..

then if we can use it, but we said it salamualaikum, right?

My christian chinese boss always greet his fellow muslim friend with assalamualaikim, and I heard his muslim friend replied with waalaikumussalam.

Me as a muslim didn't feel weird with that.

Well.. kinda.. but the right translation is "Peace be with you"

Its up to you. Whether you want to use As-Salam or Salam in the beginning. See the arguments, then decide. For me, I'm ok with either two, even if using As-Salam to the non muslims.


Good for you Why bother with things like this if it doesn't involve our aqidah and tawhid, unless you still want to stand on the linguistic side of As-Salam.

it's about the culture thingy. so yeah if you are within arabs/iran/sand *, go ahead speak arabs as you wish

but if you among malays, please dont. dont simply assume are all the same. china people langgar two year old girl and thinks that is ok just to drive away and didnt stop, so can i assume all chinese in malaysia is the same as them too?

yeah this is coming from an anti hadis follower.

That is because you follow a religion that has only the al-Qur'an as the guidance, whereas majority of Muslims follow the Sunnah on top of that.

(This is going offtopic.)

And what makes you think that particular word in that verse refers to the Hadith that's collected by Muslim scholars?

the proper salam is "assalamualaikum-warahmatullah-wabarakatuh" means "salam sejahtera ke atas kamu, semoga Alllah merahmati dan memberkati kamu."

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